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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Donald David Stone. The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction disease of self - consciousness ; and there was the flourishing of interest in the old , " romantic " forms of literature - folk ballads , tales of chivalry , and variants of ...
Donald David Stone. The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction disease of self - consciousness ; and there was the flourishing of interest in the old , " romantic " forms of literature - folk ballads , tales of chivalry , and variants of ...
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Donald David Stone. The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction traditions , the Victorian novelist was affected by the themes of chivalric and Eastern romance as well as by those of Romantic poetry ; and the resultant combination of romance ...
Donald David Stone. The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction traditions , the Victorian novelist was affected by the themes of chivalric and Eastern romance as well as by those of Romantic poetry ; and the resultant combination of romance ...
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... romance in The Profes- sor , Brontë controlled her visionary bent in that book as best she could : she was as determined as her main characters not to resort to the dictates of impulse . One result of this holding back is that when romantic ...
... romance in The Profes- sor , Brontë controlled her visionary bent in that book as best she could : she was as determined as her main characters not to resort to the dictates of impulse . One result of this holding back is that when romantic ...
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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