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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... idea in her excellent 1977 English Institute paper , " Elizabeth Gaskell : The Gypsy Bachelor of Manchester . " 17. Letters , p . 695. Elizabeth Gaskell was thirty - eight when her first novel , Mary Barton , was published . My Diary ...
... idea in her excellent 1977 English Institute paper , " Elizabeth Gaskell : The Gypsy Bachelor of Manchester . " 17. Letters , p . 695. Elizabeth Gaskell was thirty - eight when her first novel , Mary Barton , was published . My Diary ...
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... idea ) “ would have been ' Death & Varia- tions ' . There are 5 deaths , each beautifully suited to the character of the individual " ( Letters , p . 324 ) . Nina Auerbach has recently paid tribute to the " solidity " and " durability ...
... idea ) “ would have been ' Death & Varia- tions ' . There are 5 deaths , each beautifully suited to the character of the individual " ( Letters , p . 324 ) . Nina Auerbach has recently paid tribute to the " solidity " and " durability ...
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... ideas and phrasing gives him the air of a nineteenth - century guru ; Eliot was able to turn into more concrete form in her fiction such a notion as the following , which gives a good idea of Feuerbach's style : " Feeling is the object ...
... ideas and phrasing gives him the air of a nineteenth - century guru ; Eliot was able to turn into more concrete form in her fiction such a notion as the following , which gives a good idea of Feuerbach's style : " Feeling is the object ...
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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