AN OUTLINE OF DATES 9
FOREWORD 11
INTRODUCTION 13
Part Ⅰ - A Nineteenth-Century Tradition 21
1 CONTRASTS 23
ⅰ．Edmund Burke and William Cobbett 23
ⅱ．Robert Southey and Robert Owen 39
2 THE ROMANTIC ARTIST 48
3 MILL ON BENTHAM AND COLERIDGE 65
4 THOMAS CARLYLE 85
5 THE INDUSTRIAL NOVELS＆Mary Barton and North and South,Mrs Gaskell;Hard Times,Dickens;Sybil,Disraeli;Alton Locke,Kingsley;Felix Holt,George Eliot 99
6 J．H．NEWMAN AND MATTHEW ARNOLD 120
7 ART AND SOCIETY＆A．W．Pugin,John Ruskin,William Morris 137
Part Ⅱ - Interregnum 163
ⅰ．W．H．Mallock 166
ⅱ．The ＇New Aesthetics＇ 169
ⅲ．George Gissing 175
ⅳ．Shaw and Fabianism 182
ⅴ．Critics of the State 187
ⅵ．T．E．Hulme 191
Part Ⅲ - Twentieth-Century-Opinions 197
1 D．H．LAWRENCE 199
2 R．H．TAWNEY 214
3 T．S．ELLOT 224
4 TWO LITERARY CRITICS 239
ⅰ．I．A．Richards 239
ⅱ．F．R．Leavis 246
5 MARXISM AND CULTURE 258
6 GEORGE ORWELL 276
CONCLUSION 285
POSTSCRIPT 324
PEFERENCES 326
INDEX 341