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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... artist as gentle- man and good citizen , loyal to the Hanoverian monarchy ( despite his Stuart sympathies ) and conspicuously honorable in the pay- ment of his financial debts . Scott's example did much to neutralize the image of the artist ...
... artist as gentle- man and good citizen , loyal to the Hanoverian monarchy ( despite his Stuart sympathies ) and conspicuously honorable in the pay- ment of his financial debts . Scott's example did much to neutralize the image of the artist ...
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... artist required complete freedom from the conventionalities if he was to serve as a " mediator , " submitting " to ... artist's mission , which they took from Schiller , was to filter into Eliot's definition of her role as author . The ...
... artist required complete freedom from the conventionalities if he was to serve as a " mediator , " submitting " to ... artist's mission , which they took from Schiller , was to filter into Eliot's definition of her role as author . The ...
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... artist's task is to avoid the ex- tremes of a self - absorbed enthusiasm that flees contact with the world and a ... artist that she ultimately adopted for herself . At about the time that she was tutoring Mary Sibree , Eliot defended ...
... artist's task is to avoid the ex- tremes of a self - absorbed enthusiasm that flees contact with the world and a ... artist that she ultimately adopted for herself . At about the time that she was tutoring Mary Sibree , Eliot defended ...
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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