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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... Gaskell could not have gained the confidence in self and the expansion in vision that permeate her last novel . Elizabeth Gaskell deliberately placed herself in a Words- worthian frame of reference in order to justify her debut as a ...
... Gaskell could not have gained the confidence in self and the expansion in vision that permeate her last novel . Elizabeth Gaskell deliberately placed herself in a Words- worthian frame of reference in order to justify her debut as a ...
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... Mrs. Gaskell , pp . 23-50 , and by Coral Lansbury in Elizabeth Gaskell : The Novel of Social Crisis ( New York : Barnes & Noble , 1975 ) , pp . 11–21 . The individualist bias of Gaskell's religion can be seen in the letters to her ...
... Mrs. Gaskell , pp . 23-50 , and by Coral Lansbury in Elizabeth Gaskell : The Novel of Social Crisis ( New York : Barnes & Noble , 1975 ) , pp . 11–21 . The individualist bias of Gaskell's religion can be seen in the letters to her ...
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... Elizabeth Gaskell , p . 130 ) . 39. Cranford , ed . Elizabeth Watson ( London : Oxford University Press , 1972 ) , p . 114. All further citations are in the text . 40. Dickens , who published Cranford and North and South in serial form ...
... Elizabeth Gaskell , p . 130 ) . 39. Cranford , ed . Elizabeth Watson ( London : Oxford University Press , 1972 ) , p . 114. All further citations are in the text . 40. Dickens , who published Cranford and North and South in serial form ...
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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