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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... Disraeli never lost his enthusiasm for the figure whom he once claimed to be " greater even as a man than a writer . " ' 14 There is a suggestion in Disraeli's first novel , Vivian Grey ( 1827 ) , that if Byron had only lived longer and ...
... Disraeli never lost his enthusiasm for the figure whom he once claimed to be " greater even as a man than a writer . " ' 14 There is a suggestion in Disraeli's first novel , Vivian Grey ( 1827 ) , that if Byron had only lived longer and ...
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... Disraeli's delightful Popanilla ( 1828 ) . 26. A good recent appraisal of the element of wish - fulfillment in Disraeli's early novels is Robert O'Kell's " The Autobiographical Nature of Disraeli's Early Fiction , " Nineteenth - Century ...
... Disraeli's delightful Popanilla ( 1828 ) . 26. A good recent appraisal of the element of wish - fulfillment in Disraeli's early novels is Robert O'Kell's " The Autobiographical Nature of Disraeli's Early Fiction , " Nineteenth - Century ...
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... Disraeli ( New York : Twayne , 1968 ) . John Hollo- way suggestively studies the relationship between Disraeli's extrava- gant effects and his serious purpose in The Victorian Sage ( New York : Norton , 1965 ) , e.g. , p . 110 . 36. See ...
... Disraeli ( New York : Twayne , 1968 ) . John Hollo- way suggestively studies the relationship between Disraeli's extrava- gant effects and his serious purpose in The Victorian Sage ( New York : Norton , 1965 ) , e.g. , p . 110 . 36. See ...
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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