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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Page 11
... allowed for that richness of texture , that strength of ethical and imaginative concern , which informs the masterpieces of Dickens , Eliot , Trollope , and the others . Despite , or because of , its emphasis on being true to life , the ...
... allowed for that richness of texture , that strength of ethical and imaginative concern , which informs the masterpieces of Dickens , Eliot , Trollope , and the others . Despite , or because of , its emphasis on being true to life , the ...
Page 154
... allowed to flourish to such a degree that the reader is likely to forget , when thinking back on the novel , the facts to the con- trary : the deaths of so many of the characters ( three by the end of the first serial installment alone ) ...
... allowed to flourish to such a degree that the reader is likely to forget , when thinking back on the novel , the facts to the con- trary : the deaths of so many of the characters ( three by the end of the first serial installment alone ) ...
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... allowed the outsider to be integrated into the community , and indeed went so far as to allow the former alien to achieve a moral triumph over the reigning squire , Godfrey Cass . The formula was re- peated in Felix Holt , where a ...
... allowed the outsider to be integrated into the community , and indeed went so far as to allow the former alien to achieve a moral triumph over the reigning squire , Godfrey Cass . The formula was re- peated in Felix Holt , where a ...
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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