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 147
... lack of self - confidence results in flaws in the han- dling of Barton . She makes the mistake , for example , of attribut- ing his frustration to a lack of instruction in the sacred texts of David Ricardo and Adam Smith . When Barton ...
... lack of self - confidence results in flaws in the han- dling of Barton . She makes the mistake , for example , of attribut- ing his frustration to a lack of instruction in the sacred texts of David Ricardo and Adam Smith . When Barton ...
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... lack of tolerance with which she wittily attacks these writ- ers ' egoism and lack of tolerance suggests a certain self - right- eousness on her part . The laudatory reviews of Harriet Beecher Stowe's depiction of life among the blacks ...
... lack of tolerance with which she wittily attacks these writ- ers ' egoism and lack of tolerance suggests a certain self - right- eousness on her part . The laudatory reviews of Harriet Beecher Stowe's depiction of life among the blacks ...
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... lack of allegiance to any of the opposing political factions coupled with his Machiavellian adroit- ness and his ... lacking the feelings that root one to the past and that alone restrain egoism , he is denied what Eliot in Theophrastus ...
... lack of allegiance to any of the opposing political factions coupled with his Machiavellian adroit- ness and his ... lacking the feelings that root one to the past and that alone restrain egoism , he is denied what Eliot in Theophrastus ...
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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