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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Page 150
... Gaskell's own presumptuousness in writing ; and the attack on lying , an important motif in Gaskell's work , can be seen as a veiled critique of fiction itself . Ruth is descended from the abandoned heroines of the old English ballads ...
... Gaskell's own presumptuousness in writing ; and the attack on lying , an important motif in Gaskell's work , can be seen as a veiled critique of fiction itself . Ruth is descended from the abandoned heroines of the old English ballads ...
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... Gaskell's work from Mary Barton on , and which sugests that unconsciously she may have seen herself as the victim of her good self ) becomes an intolerable burden . In an early story like " Hand and Heart " ( 1849 ) , it was as- sumed ...
... Gaskell's work from Mary Barton on , and which sugests that unconsciously she may have seen herself as the victim of her good self ) becomes an intolerable burden . In an early story like " Hand and Heart " ( 1849 ) , it was as- sumed ...
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... 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 daughter ...
... 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 daughter ...
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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