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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... heroine's original fate.40 Robert's eleventh - hour proposal of marriage presumably saves Caroline from further anxieties . But given Robert's obstinate nature , and the fact that he has recently proposed to Shirley for the sake of her ...
... heroine's original fate.40 Robert's eleventh - hour proposal of marriage presumably saves Caroline from further anxieties . But given Robert's obstinate nature , and the fact that he has recently proposed to Shirley for the sake of her ...
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... heroine lest she should ever see beyond the com- forts of nature to " what man has made of man , " and where Hardy subjects Tess to the cruelties of a malign universe , Gaskell wants her heroine to pass out of the realm of romance so ...
... heroine lest she should ever see beyond the com- forts of nature to " what man has made of man , " and where Hardy subjects Tess to the cruelties of a malign universe , Gaskell wants her heroine to pass out of the realm of romance so ...
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... heroine of North and South , Margaret Hale , Gaskell per- mitted a measure of the independence and self - reliance that the ladies of Cranford had mistakenly believed to be theirs ; in the ignorant and impulsive Sylvia , the novelist ...
... heroine of North and South , Margaret Hale , Gaskell per- mitted a measure of the independence and self - reliance that the ladies of Cranford had mistakenly believed to be theirs ; in the ignorant and impulsive Sylvia , the novelist ...
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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