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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... Live Now ( 1873 ) , is the apotheosis of the adventurer , a swindler whom everyone respects because he is so successful at his game.38 " There's nothing like being a robber , " one of his admirers declares , " if you can only rob enough ...
... Live Now ( 1873 ) , is the apotheosis of the adventurer , a swindler whom everyone respects because he is so successful at his game.38 " There's nothing like being a robber , " one of his admirers declares , " if you can only rob enough ...
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... live as brave and noble a life as any heroine shè had ever read or heard of in romance , a life sans peur et sans reproche ; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will , and such would be accomplished . And now she had learnt ...
... live as brave and noble a life as any heroine shè had ever read or heard of in romance , a life sans peur et sans reproche ; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will , and such would be accomplished . And now she had learnt ...
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... live : in the words of Richard III , " So wise so young , they say do ne'er live long . " What Dickens most obviously bor- rows from Wordsworth is the sense that by dying young Lucy Gray has been saved from the anxieties of age or the ...
... live : in the words of Richard III , " So wise so young , they say do ne'er live long . " What Dickens most obviously bor- rows from Wordsworth is the sense that by dying young Lucy Gray has been saved from the anxieties of age or 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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