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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... Italian freedom , and because Disraeli sees Jerusalem , not Rome , as the real fountainhead of religious truth . Action becomes the antidote for Lothair's morbid introspection ; his romantic activity as a soldier in the cause of Italian ...
... Italian freedom , and because Disraeli sees Jerusalem , not Rome , as the real fountainhead of religious truth . Action becomes the antidote for Lothair's morbid introspection ; his romantic activity as a soldier in the cause of Italian ...
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... Italian states might one day abandon their petty intrigues among themselves and unite against the common enemy was ... Italy , Vittoria ( 1867 ) . That novel's heroine , whose name perhaps derives from Vittoria Colonna although her ...
... Italian states might one day abandon their petty intrigues among themselves and unite against the common enemy was ... Italy , Vittoria ( 1867 ) . That novel's heroine , whose name perhaps derives from Vittoria Colonna although her ...
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... Italy from the subjugation of the Teuton " ( pp . 501 , 487 ) , is an overblown representation of Meredith's own conceit as a Spasmodic poet . ( The liberation of Italy was , in fact , an ideal he believed very strongly in , as his ...
... Italy from the subjugation of the Teuton " ( pp . 501 , 487 ) , is an overblown representation of Meredith's own conceit as a Spasmodic poet . ( The liberation of Italy was , in fact , an ideal he believed very strongly in , as his ...
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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