The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition

Contents: Preface, David Fairer Introduction, Francis O'Gorman and Katherine Turner The debt to society: Dickens, Fielding, and the genealogy of independence, Helen Small George Eliot, Rousseau, and the discipline of natural consequences, Simon Dentith 'The dreams of thy youth': Bucks, Belles and half-way men in Victorian fiction, Carolyn D. Williams The 'high priest of an age of prose and reason'? Alexander Pope and the Victorians, Francis O'Gorman The cultural politics of 18th-century representation in Victorian literary histories, Elisabeth Jay The 'link of transition': Samuel Johnson and the Victorians, Katherine Turner Departures and returns: writing the English dictionary in the 18th and 19th centuries, Lynda Mugglestone Ruskin's revised 18th century, Dinah Birch Sincerity in every department? Masks, masculinity, and market forces in 18th-century English Men of Letters, David Amigoni 'I am nothing': a typology of the forger from Chatterton to Wilde, Nick Groom Regarding the 18th century: Vernon Lee and Emilia Dilke construct a period, Hilary Fraser Bibliography Index.