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 144
... heart feels so full of him , " she declared in 1836 . Gaskell's Wordsworth was the Victorian Wordsworth , the poet of humble life and unlimited powers of empathy , whose message in " The Old Cumberland Beggar " - " We have all of us one ...
... heart feels so full of him , " she declared in 1836 . Gaskell's Wordsworth was the Victorian Wordsworth , the poet of humble life and unlimited powers of empathy , whose message in " The Old Cumberland Beggar " - " We have all of us one ...
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... Heart . " To a friend of her youth , Eliot loftily declared herself to be " influenced in my own conduct ... by far higher considerations , and by a nobler idea of duty , than I ever was while I held the evangelical beliefs " now ...
... Heart . " To a friend of her youth , Eliot loftily declared herself to be " influenced in my own conduct ... by far higher considerations , and by a nobler idea of duty , than I ever was while I held the evangelical beliefs " now ...
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... heart needs it " ( pp . 104- 105 ) . That each of the three books of The Mill on the Floss ends with brother and sister reunited testifies to the victory of heart's need over reality . But it is not enough to say that romantic values ...
... heart needs it " ( pp . 104- 105 ) . That each of the three books of The Mill on the Floss ends with brother and sister reunited testifies to the victory of heart's need over reality . But it is not enough to say that romantic values ...
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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