Introduction 1
"A Revolution in Female Manners"：Capital,Culture and Gender in the Victorian Novel 1
Chapter One Body Politics and Marriage Redeemed：Spaces of Capital in Mary Barton(1848),North and South(1855),and Shirley(1849) 42
Helen,Cenci,and Frankenstein in Mary Barton 47
North and South：A Heroine"Walking in the City" 58
Spaces of Utopia in Shirley 68
Chapter Two "Between Two Worlds"：Mediating Between Culture and Capital in Felix Holt(1866) and Middlemarch(1872) 79
Capitalist Totality and Material Culture 86
The Man of Culture as the Ideal Husband 99
"Address to Middle-Class Women,by George Eliot" 110
The Companionate Marriage as the Consummation of Acculturation 125
Chapter Three Marriage and Its Discontents：Invading Capital and the Failure of National Culture in The Return of the Native(1878)and Jude the Obscure(1895) 130
Capitalist Colonization in Wessex and the Hegemony of Capitalist Patriarchy 140
Dreams and Commodities：The Bankruptcy of Arnoldian Culture in Wessex 151
The Return of the Native：The Heroine and the Capitalist Contract 162
Marriage and/as Work：The Dissolution of Marriage in Jude the Obscure 169
Coda 184
Reading Credit and Colony as Alternative Spaces of Engenderment in Vanity Fair(1848) 184
Notes 203
Works Cited 217