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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... figure Josiah Craw- ley as a moral standard by which to measure the world of Barsetshire , uses the world as a means of putting this noble but flawed figure into perspective . Trollope allows his comfortable , worldly pastor Mark ...
... figure Josiah Craw- ley as a moral standard by which to measure the world of Barsetshire , uses the world as a means of putting this noble but flawed figure into perspective . Trollope allows his comfortable , worldly pastor Mark ...
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... figure of malign energy as Daniel Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop or in the criminality and hypnotic quality of a John Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood . If the Wordsworthian side of Dickens's nature inclines him toward the pathetic ...
... figure of malign energy as Daniel Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop or in the criminality and hypnotic quality of a John Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood . If the Wordsworthian side of Dickens's nature inclines him toward the pathetic ...
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... figure . ) But in choosing to treat the Byronic persona in a serious , albeit largely negative , manner , rather than in the comical fashion of his previous caricatures of Byronic misanthropy , Dickens in- dicated something of the ...
... figure . ) But in choosing to treat the Byronic persona in a serious , albeit largely negative , manner , rather than in the comical fashion of his previous caricatures of Byronic misanthropy , Dickens in- dicated something of 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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