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 148
... scene between him and Carson when Barton , now contrite , is on his deathbed . Gaskell's predilection for such reconciliation scenes in her novels , scenes that do not work in strictly realistic terms , results from her Christian ...
... scene between him and Carson when Barton , now contrite , is on his deathbed . Gaskell's predilection for such reconciliation scenes in her novels , scenes that do not work in strictly realistic terms , results from her Christian ...
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... scene of reconcilia- tion that takes place between Sylvia and Philip on his deathbed is unconvincing despite being well intended , as was the similar scene in Mary Barton . Gaskell is truer to her realistic instinct , and closest to ...
... scene of reconcilia- tion that takes place between Sylvia and Philip on his deathbed is unconvincing despite being well intended , as was the similar scene in Mary Barton . Gaskell is truer to her realistic instinct , and closest to ...
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... scene , Thomas Noble , in George Eliot's ' Scenes of Clerical Life ' ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1965 ) , p . 144 , admits sur- prise that Eliot would have resorted to such a situation , but the scene reveals all too obviously ...
... scene , Thomas Noble , in George Eliot's ' Scenes of Clerical Life ' ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1965 ) , p . 144 , admits sur- prise that Eliot would have resorted to such a situation , but the scene reveals all too obviously ...
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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