Acknowledgments
Introduction: The "Seemingly Indecipherable Metaphysics of Being" English or, Where to Begin?
1. Of Detours, Returns, Addictions and Women: Coleridge, Wordsworth and National Identity
2. Matthew Arnold, Englishness and a Question of Spirit
3. Arnold, Englishness and Critical Avoidance: A Reading of "My Countrymen"
4. Critical Nationalism and the "Truth" of (Identity in) Elizabeth Gaskell
5. Wilkie Collins and the (Secret) Heart of English Culture
6. The Ideology of Englishness: The Paradoxes of Tory-Liberal Culture and National Identity in Daniel Deronda
7. Reading Trollope: Whose Englishness is it Anyway?
(In) Conclusion: Towards a New Victorianism?
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index