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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... characters ( as he admitted in his Autobiography ) he lived with night and day . By way of contrast , the realistic im- pulse of a Fielding , a Jane Austen , or a Thackeray dictated a different means of operation and a less exalted ...
... characters ( as he admitted in his Autobiography ) he lived with night and day . By way of contrast , the realistic im- pulse of a Fielding , a Jane Austen , or a Thackeray dictated a different means of operation and a less exalted ...
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... characters and story.34 Scott brought romance down to earth , brought his individuals out of the clouds of romantic myth , dispelling in the process illusions of human potentiality such as the Romantics had favored . But he also allowed ...
... characters and story.34 Scott brought romance down to earth , brought his individuals out of the clouds of romantic myth , dispelling in the process illusions of human potentiality such as the Romantics had favored . But he also allowed ...
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... characters has always inspired praise , Trollope's own adroit use of the differing angles of vision of his characters to achieve comic or tragic effects has only re- cently come to be appreciated . The various characters who adopt ...
... characters has always inspired praise , Trollope's own adroit use of the differing angles of vision of his characters to achieve comic or tragic effects has only re- cently come to be appreciated . The various characters who adopt ...
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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