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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... role in sustaining the moral integrity of his readers.12 Rejecting a potential Carlylean role of the Hero as Novelist , Trollope nevertheless defined the novelist's task as showing his readers the attractiveness of honest conduct ...
... role in sustaining the moral integrity of his readers.12 Rejecting a potential Carlylean role of the Hero as Novelist , Trollope nevertheless defined the novelist's task as showing his readers the attractiveness of honest conduct ...
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... role of the old maid is worse . " Is there not a ter- rible hollowness , mockery , want , craving , in that existence , " Caroline movingly protests , " which is given away to others , for want of something of your own to bestow it on ...
... role of the old maid is worse . " Is there not a ter- rible hollowness , mockery , want , craving , in that existence , " Caroline movingly protests , " which is given away to others , for want of something of your own to bestow it on ...
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... role played by religion in the past , and ( as Lewes notes ) " by whose aid the great world - scheme was to be wrought into reality . . . They believed that Culture would raise Humanity to its full powers ; and they , as artists , knew ...
... role played by religion in the past , and ( as Lewes notes ) " by whose aid the great world - scheme was to be wrought into reality . . . They believed that Culture would raise Humanity to its full powers ; and they , as artists , knew ...
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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