Introduction: Rethinking the Victorians / Kelly Boyd and Rohan McWilliam
Pt. 1. Periodisation. Should we abandon the idea of the Victorian period? / Richard Price
Pt. 2. Economy. Can culture explain economic decline? / Martin Wiener ; Gentlemanly capitalism / P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins
Pt. 3. Consumerism and material culture. Women and the department store / Erika Rappaport ; Clothing the middle-class male / Christopher Breward
Pt. 4. Society and class. The fall of class / Patrick Joyce ; Representing the Manchester Irish / Mary Poovey
Pt. 5. Space. Public spaces in the Victorian city / Simon Gunn
Pt. 6. Politics high and low. Liberalism and government / Jonathan Parry ; Radicalism, language and class / Gareth Stedman Jones ; Gender and radicalism / Anna Clark
Pt. 7. Morality. In defence of the Victorians / Gertrude Himmelfarb
Pt. 8. Intellectual history. Character and the Victorian mind / Stefan Collini
Pt. 9. Religion. Religion, doctrine and public policy / Boyd Hilton ; How religious was Victorian Britain? / Callum Brown
Pt. 10. Science. Evolution before Darwin / Adrian Desmond ; Domesticating evolution / James A. Secord ; Darwin's imagination / Gillian Beer ; Science and popular culture / Alison Winter
Pt. 11. Gender and the family. Separate spheres / Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall ; Men and domesticity / John Tosh ; Working-class family strategies / Ellen Ross
Pt. 12. Sexuality. Working-class sexuality / Michael Mason ; The meaning of the prostitute / Lynda Nead ; Jack the Ripper and the doctors / Judith Walkowitz ; Homosexuality and late Victorian anxiety / Elaine Showalter ; Sexuality and the pub / Peter Bailey
Pt. 13. Monarchy. Restoring the popularity of the monarchy / John Plunkett
Pt. 14. Race, empire and national identity. Bringing the empire back in / Catherine Hall.
