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 65
... desire for self - oblivion . The most extreme case in Trollope of a man driven by a " Fury " and " conscious of being so driven " is that of George Vavasor ( Can You Forgive Her ?, chap . 56 ) . Trollope is more sympathetic to other ...
... desire for self - oblivion . The most extreme case in Trollope of a man driven by a " Fury " and " conscious of being so driven " is that of George Vavasor ( Can You Forgive Her ?, chap . 56 ) . Trollope is more sympathetic to other ...
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... desire to rediscover , or to recreate in one's mind , the lost home of one's childhood is typical of the Romantic imagination . That Gaskell realized the dream of " home " to be a danger to her heroines ' moral health is seen in the ...
... desire to rediscover , or to recreate in one's mind , the lost home of one's childhood is typical of the Romantic imagination . That Gaskell realized the dream of " home " to be a danger to her heroines ' moral health is seen in the ...
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... desire to be " chief actress " in a drama of imaginative wish - fulfillment or saintly self - suppression is as evident in the picture of Eliot reflected in her earliest letters as in the marvelous depictions of Maggie Tulliver and ...
... desire to be " chief actress " in a drama of imaginative wish - fulfillment or saintly self - suppression is as evident in the picture of Eliot reflected in her earliest letters as in the marvelous depictions of Maggie Tulliver and ...
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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