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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... George Eliot's life was typical of her tolerance : " Do you know I can't help liking her , " she wrote of the author ... George Eliot : The Romantic Legacy 1. For comparisons of Wordsworth and George Eliot see , for ex- ample , Robert A ...
... George Eliot's life was typical of her tolerance : " Do you know I can't help liking her , " she wrote of the author ... George Eliot : The Romantic Legacy 1. For comparisons of Wordsworth and George Eliot see , for ex- ample , Robert A ...
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... George Eliot : for example , " The chief burden of her novels is that human beings are not social , not ' Victorian ' enough . . . George Eliot's characteristic subject is the necessary submission of individuals to their own society ...
... George Eliot : for example , " The chief burden of her novels is that human beings are not social , not ' Victorian ' enough . . . George Eliot's characteristic subject is the necessary submission of individuals to their own society ...
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... Eliot was a thoroughgoing determinist , whose views were modified to some degree by Feuerbach and Comte , is the position taken by Felicia Bonaparte in Will and Destiny : Morality and Trag- edy in George Eliot's Novels ( New York : New ...
... Eliot was a thoroughgoing determinist , whose views were modified to some degree by Feuerbach and Comte , is the position taken by Felicia Bonaparte in Will and Destiny : Morality and Trag- edy in George Eliot's Novels ( New York : New ...
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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