INTRODUCTION (K. Štěpaník) ...3 // Chapter one: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY // FROM 1830 TO 1884 (K. Štěpaník) // 1. The Prelude to Chartism ...4 // 2. The Chartist Movement ...11 // 3. Capitalist Stabilisation and // Expansion ...18 // Chapter two: THE IDEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND OF VICTORIAN // LITERATURE (K. Štěpaník) // 1. Introduction ...33 // 2. Science ...35 (Lyell - Chambers - Miller - Darwin Wells - Huxley - Wallace) // 3. Philosophy ...40 (The Scottish School - Utilitarianism // - Positivism - Hegelianism - Agnosticism - Theology - The Oxford Movement • // Christian Socialism) // 4. Historiography ...48 (Macaulay - Hallam - Lingard Froude - Green - Buckle) // 5. Thomas Carlyle ...51 (Life and Literary Career - Works // e // and Views) // a) Carlyle ‘s Philosophy // b) Carlyle ‘s Conception of History // c) Social Criticism // Chapter three: CHARTIST LITERATURE (K. Štěpaník) // 1. Introduction ...69 // 2. Propagandists and Journalists ...70 // , (Hetherington - Stephens - Frost Lovett - O’Brien - O Connor - Harney) // 3. Chartist Poetry ...78 (Cooper - Lofft - Jones - Linton Massey) // Chapter four: EARLY VICTORIAN MINOR NOVELISTS (1830-1848) (L. Pantůčková) // Introduction ...104 // 1. Edward Bulwer , ...107 // 2. Benjamin Disraeli ...113 // 3. Military and Naval Novelists ...120 (Lever - Grant - Maxwell - Gleig Marryat - Chamier - Scott) // 4. George Henry Borrow ...124 // Chapter five: CRITICAL REALISM (L. Pantíčková) // Introduction ...127 // 1. Charles Dickens ...129 (Life, Character and Views - Literary // Development - Aesthetic and Creative Principles) // 2. William Makepeace Thackeray ...152 (Thackeray’s Life and Views Literary Career - Method of Creation) // 3. The Sisters Bronte ...173 (The Life of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte - The Novels of Charlotte Bronte - Analysis of Charlotte Bronte’s Novels -
The Work of Emily Bronte Emily Bronte’s Method of Creation The Novels of Anne Bronte - Summary) // 4. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ...195 (Life and Literary Career - Analysis of "Mary Barton”) // SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY