Part I. 1850-1900: Philosophy, Religion and the Victorian Novel of Ideas: 1. Moral ideation in the nineteenth-century British novel: rethinking character-character dialogue Amanda Anderson; 2. George Eliot: realism and dialectics Ruth Abbott; 3. Samuel Butler: ideas against themselves John Kucich; 4. George Gissing: idealism and social reform Benjamin Kohlmann; Part II. 1900-1945: The Novel of Ideas, Revolution and Reform: 5. The British novel of ideas in an international context Rachel Potter; 6. H. G. Wells: exposition and dialogue Suzanne Hobson; 7. G. K. Chesterton: tradition and ideals Christos Hadjiyannis; 8. E. M. Forster: liberal propositions and liberal proceduralism Janice Ho; 9. Aldous Huxley: mysticism and science Jake Poller; 10. Katharine Burdekin: self and not self Glyn Salton-Cox; 11. Mulk Raj Anand: anticolonialism and abjection Anindya Raychaudhuri; 12. Storm Jameson: fascism and liberalism Katherine Cooper; Part III. 1945-1975: the Novel of Ideas and the Cold War: 13. The psycho-political novel of ideas and the Second World War Adam Piette; 14. Naomi Mitchison: Nation and history James Purdon; 15. George Orwell: politics and power Nathan Waddell; 16. Rebecca West: trials and retribution Allan Hepburn; 17. George Lamming: colonialism and rumination Douglas Mao; 18. Doris Lessing: espionage and speculative fiction Peter Kalliney; 19. Iris Murdoch: Philosophy and the Novel David Dwan; Part IV. 1975-present: The Contemporary Novel of Ideas; 20. Comedy, sincerity and hypocrisy in the novel of ideas Matthew Taunton; 21. Malcolm Bradbury: sociology and satire Nicoletta Pireddu; 22. Hanif Kureishi: fundamentalism and multiculturalism Michael Perfect; 23. Ian McEwan: ideation and realism Dominic Head; 24. Kamila Shamsie: citizenship and civil rights Birgit Breidenbach; 25. Zadie Smith: Art and Beauty Peter Boxall.