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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... seems oblivious to the Wordsworthian " burthen of the mystery , " she shares the Wordsworthian sense of the burden of reality , a profound sympathy toward all who suffer and mourn and a realization of the tragic bounds of life ...
... seems oblivious to the Wordsworthian " burthen of the mystery , " she shares the Wordsworthian sense of the burden of reality , a profound sympathy toward all who suffer and mourn and a realization of the tragic bounds of life ...
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... seems like Maggie Tulliver trans- planted to an age and a cultural milieu , early Renaissance Florence , that allow her to express her romantic aspirations . Like Maggie , Romola has inherited something of her father's pride , but old ...
... seems like Maggie Tulliver trans- planted to an age and a cultural milieu , early Renaissance Florence , that allow her to express her romantic aspirations . Like Maggie , Romola has inherited something of her father's pride , but old ...
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... seems marvellously fitted for slipping easily into any nest he fixes his mind on " ( I , 113 ) . The neo - Platonism that flourished in fifteenth- century Florence allowed for the invalid assumption that one as handsome as Tito must be ...
... seems marvellously fitted for slipping easily into any nest he fixes his mind on " ( I , 113 ) . The neo - Platonism that flourished in fifteenth- century Florence allowed for the invalid assumption that one as handsome as Tito must be ...
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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