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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... Wordsworth's influence , by contrast , was seen as quietly restorative . That Brontë recog- nized as much can be seen in the episode of The Professor where the heroine shows signs of Byronic willfulness : Crimsworth exorcises the ...
... Wordsworth's influence , by contrast , was seen as quietly restorative . That Brontë recog- nized as much can be seen in the episode of The Professor where the heroine shows signs of Byronic willfulness : Crimsworth exorcises the ...
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... Wordsworth's centrality in English literature in part comes from his embodiment of the antithetical nature of English Ro- manticism , which is to say the antithetical nature of England herself . Like his great predecessor Milton , ...
... Wordsworth's centrality in English literature in part comes from his embodiment of the antithetical nature of English Ro- manticism , which is to say the antithetical nature of England herself . Like his great predecessor Milton , ...
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... Wordsworth " ; and notwithstanding his professed admiration for " We Are Seven , " there is little evidence that Dickens knew Wordsworth's work to any great extent . An important indication of Dickens's attitude toward Wordsworth is ...
... Wordsworth " ; and notwithstanding his professed admiration for " We Are Seven , " there is little evidence that Dickens knew Wordsworth's work to any great extent . An important indication of Dickens's attitude toward Wordsworth is ...
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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