Barbara Dennis & David Skilton 
Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England [PDF ebook] 

First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change – political, social, and intellectual – which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, religious debate and secular thought, education; leisure and attitudes to the arts, and the Woman Question. This title will be of interest to students of history.