Realism and the Romantic Essay Source Studies of Victorian Prose

Uttara Natarajan, Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Goldsmiths University of London

Uttara Natarajan is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Goldsmiths University of London, where she has worked for the last twenty-six years. She completed her DPhil at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Prior to her appointment at Goldsmiths, she held a William Noble Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, followed by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, at the University of Liverpool. She serves on the committee of the Hazlitt Society and is founding Editor of The Hazlitt Review.

1. Beginnings: The Familiar Ideals of the Romantic EssayPart I Getting Real2. 'The True Ideal': Ruskin's Debt to Hazlitt3. 'A Just and Loving Gaze': Dickens's Ordinary Style4. Imagination to Feeling: Ruskin's via NegativaPart II Downsizing5. 'Elder Poets in To-day's Newspaper': Obsolescence and Modernity in Middlemarch6. 'Caressing Littleness': The Fine Reality of Pater's Lamb7. On Being the Wrong Size: Scaling Modernity in The Return of the NativeCoda: Essaying Anew in Virginibus Puerisque