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. Introduction and domestic goals — the great subject of Victorian fiction - the Victorian novelists continued a tendency that was already im- plicit in one aspect of Romanticism.18 However , in weighing the rights of ...
Donald David Stone. Introduction and domestic goals — the great subject of Victorian fiction - the Victorian novelists continued a tendency that was already im- plicit in one aspect of Romanticism.18 However , in weighing the rights of ...
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... Victorian fiction derives from a variety of lit- erary sources , but the Victorian novel was especially enriched by the diversity of themes and values provided by Romanticism . The importance granted to the faculty of sympathy , for ...
... Victorian fiction derives from a variety of lit- erary sources , but the Victorian novel was especially enriched by the diversity of themes and values provided by Romanticism . The importance granted to the faculty of sympathy , for ...
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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