Art and the Victorian middle class: money and the making of cultural identity

1. Nouveaux riches or New Order? Early-Victorian collectors in London 2. Culture and middle-class identity in Manchester and Birmingham 3. Pre-Raphaelitism: progressive or regressive? 4. Money and mainstream mid-Victorian values 5. The Aesthetic movement: L'Art et l'argent Epilogue: mimesis versus modernism Appendix: major Victorian collectors Bibliography Index.