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 160
... energy and self - assurance that seem lacking elsewhere . Having acknowledged the claims of passion and energy and paid homage to the force of will in North and South , Elizabeth Gaskell spent much of the next decade atoning for this ...
... energy and self - assurance that seem lacking elsewhere . Having acknowledged the claims of passion and energy and paid homage to the force of will in North and South , Elizabeth Gaskell spent much of the next decade atoning for this ...
Page 259
... energy into creative and personal power were not effected without some resultant flaws in his personality : What it was that in society made him often uneasy , shrink- ing , and over - sensitive , he knew ; but all the danger he ran in ...
... energy into creative and personal power were not effected without some resultant flaws in his personality : What it was that in society made him often uneasy , shrink- ing , and over - sensitive , he knew ; but all the danger he ran in ...
Page 275
... energy and his distaste for rebel- lion forced him to look away from social solutions that did other than numb the rebellious instinct , forced him to look instead to the panacea of death and circuses . Dickens's conscious design in The ...
... energy and his distaste for rebel- lion forced him to look away from social solutions that did other than numb the rebellious instinct , forced him to look instead to the panacea of death and circuses . Dickens's conscious design in The ...
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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