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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... believe that no girl has risen from the reading of my pages less modest than she was before , and that some may have learned from them that modesty is a charm well worth preserving . " As late as 1879 Trollope hailed Scott , " who still ...
... believe that no girl has risen from the reading of my pages less modest than she was before , and that some may have learned from them that modesty is a charm well worth preserving . " As late as 1879 Trollope hailed Scott , " who still ...
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... believe - but with what to believe in still a matter for doubt . What ultimately redeems the book is not its message ( al- though Disraeli considered this his most important book ) but its wit , seen in the political intrigues of ...
... believe - but with what to believe in still a matter for doubt . What ultimately redeems the book is not its message ( al- though Disraeli considered this his most important book ) but its wit , seen in the political intrigues of ...
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... believe was a proof that there was something to believe in , something that affirmed the power of the will after all . Like Keats in his substitution of Cortez for Balboa , Disraeli knew that the scientists ' discoveries could not be ...
... believe was a proof that there was something to believe in , something that affirmed the power of the will after all . Like Keats in his substitution of Cortez for Balboa , Disraeli knew that the scientists ' discoveries could not be ...
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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