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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... child - wife " who is the reincarnation of his child - mother . The novelist's celebration of the child's imaginative point of view in his earlier fiction is a sign of his Romantic sympathies : Paul Dombey's wish that he remain a child ...
... child - wife " who is the reincarnation of his child - mother . The novelist's celebration of the child's imaginative point of view in his earlier fiction is a sign of his Romantic sympathies : Paul Dombey's wish that he remain a child ...
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... child of nature - like the children in Wordsworth's poetry - but instead make him look forward to the time of his own death when the peace of pre - existence will be transferred to the calm of eternity . Where the child in " We Are ...
... child of nature - like the children in Wordsworth's poetry - but instead make him look forward to the time of his own death when the peace of pre - existence will be transferred to the calm of eternity . Where the child in " We Are ...
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... child- hood when he talked about it , creating " a special poetry about child- hood suffering " ( The World of Charles Dickens , p . 58 ) . Steven Marcus , in Dickens from Pickwick to Dombey ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1968 ...
... child- hood when he talked about it , creating " a special poetry about child- hood suffering " ( The World of Charles Dickens , p . 58 ) . Steven Marcus , in Dickens from Pickwick to Dombey ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1968 ...
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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