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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... effect she makes on others is not through the message she delivers but through the " electric thrill " ( to borrow Eliot's phrase when describing the effect of Rousseau ) of Dinah's " sincere unpremeditated eloquence " ( pp . 25 , 29 ) ...
... effect she makes on others is not through the message she delivers but through the " electric thrill " ( to borrow Eliot's phrase when describing the effect of Rousseau ) of Dinah's " sincere unpremeditated eloquence " ( pp . 25 , 29 ) ...
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... effect " planned with the recital of the death of Nancy in Oliver Twist ( " I have no doubt that I could perfectly ... effect had been displayed in the erotic- criminal nature of his heroes ( the side that appealed so strongly to ...
... effect " planned with the recital of the death of Nancy in Oliver Twist ( " I have no doubt that I could perfectly ... effect had been displayed in the erotic- criminal nature of his heroes ( the side that appealed so strongly to ...
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... effect for its own sake giving way ( as he claimed with the writing of A Christmas Carol ) to the discovery of the " immense effect [ he ] could produce " for the good of society.20 It was at this point , in the 1840s and 1850s , that ...
... effect for its own sake giving way ( as he claimed with the writing of A Christmas Carol ) to the discovery of the " immense effect [ he ] could produce " for the good of society.20 It was at this point , in the 1840s and 1850s , that ...
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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