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 118
... Nature " ( p . 412 ) when she flees Thornfield , having learned about Rochester's wife and re- fusing to be his mistress ; and Nature and Providence lead her to the Moor House , where she learns that she has kind - hearted relations and ...
... Nature " ( p . 412 ) when she flees Thornfield , having learned about Rochester's wife and re- fusing to be his mistress ; and Nature and Providence lead her to the Moor House , where she learns that she has kind - hearted relations and ...
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... nature ensures that her romantic and realistic tendencies are not reconciled by the novel's end . It may be that when she considered calling her book " The Specksioneer " -after the romantic " hero " of the book , the harpoonist Charley ...
... nature ensures that her romantic and realistic tendencies are not reconciled by the novel's end . It may be that when she considered calling her book " The Specksioneer " -after the romantic " hero " of the book , the harpoonist Charley ...
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... nature and the mask she mistakenly dons . A Wordsworthian " daughter of earth " ( p . 116 ) , full of vitality and natural rever- ence , she is obliged by her love for Richard to impersonate " a dutiful slave " ( p . 253 ) fit for a ...
... nature and the mask she mistakenly dons . A Wordsworthian " daughter of earth " ( p . 116 ) , full of vitality and natural rever- ence , she is obliged by her love for Richard to impersonate " a dutiful slave " ( p . 253 ) fit for a ...
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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