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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... Mary Barton , that Gaskell's Wordsworthian sensibility is most fully aroused , both for better and for worse . The unsatisfactory Wordsworthian aspect of Mary Barton is seen in the character of Alice Wilson , whose display of fortitude ...
... Mary Barton , that Gaskell's Wordsworthian sensibility is most fully aroused , both for better and for worse . The unsatisfactory Wordsworthian aspect of Mary Barton is seen in the character of Alice Wilson , whose display of fortitude ...
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... Mary Barton and in the depiction of her heroine's progress . We initially see Mary as a good - natured but vain and headstrong girl , whose reading of romances has fueled her ambition to become a " lady " and her fantasy of marrying ...
... Mary Barton and in the depiction of her heroine's progress . We initially see Mary as a good - natured but vain and headstrong girl , whose reading of romances has fueled her ambition to become a " lady " and her fantasy of marrying ...
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... Mary Garth with Wordsworth partly on the basis of the name Eliot had originally selected for her , Mary Dove . See " Fusing Fact and Myth : The New Reality of Middlemarch , " in This Particular Web , ed . Ian Adam ( University of ...
... Mary Garth with Wordsworth partly on the basis of the name Eliot had originally selected for her , Mary Dove . See " Fusing Fact and Myth : The New Reality of Middlemarch , " in This Particular Web , ed . Ian Adam ( University of ...
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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