The Romantic Impulse in Victorian FictionMr. Stone takes an innovative approach to the Victorian novelists, examining their debt to the writers of the previous generation. Confronting the diversity of the Romantic movement and of the Victorians' responses to it, he discovers strong and unexpected affinities between the novelists and the Romantics. |
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... Bulwer could never grasp why his wife , his mother , and hostile critics were unable to take him at his own estimation . Lacking " sympathy with mankind , " as his grandson ... Bulwer heroes ; Bulwer's partiality for Schiller resulted in 34.
... Bulwer could never grasp why his wife , his mother , and hostile critics were unable to take him at his own estimation . Lacking " sympathy with mankind , " as his grandson ... Bulwer heroes ; Bulwer's partiality for Schiller resulted in 34.
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... Bulwer gave up politics to devote himself to his literary career ; and one sometimes wishes that Shakespeare , on one of his spiritualist visitations , had advised Bulwer to re- main in the political arena , where rhetoric very often ...
... Bulwer gave up politics to devote himself to his literary career ; and one sometimes wishes that Shakespeare , on one of his spiritualist visitations , had advised Bulwer to re- main in the political arena , where rhetoric very often ...
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... Bulwer's muddled retelling of the story of an actual murderer , whose crime is given quasi - religious sanc- tion . As an impoverished scientist with Faustian ambitions , Aram is tempted to rob and kill a thoroughly worthless individual ...
... Bulwer's muddled retelling of the story of an actual murderer , whose crime is given quasi - religious sanc- tion . As an impoverished scientist with Faustian ambitions , Aram is tempted to rob and kill a thoroughly worthless individual ...
Contents
ONE Introduction | 1 |
TWO Trollope Byron and the Conventionalities | 46 |
THREE Benjamin Disraeli and the Romance of the Will | 74 |
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