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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... sense of kinship with Schiller and Rousseau , and Elizabeth Gaskell's Unitarian upbringing contributed to the affinity she later felt with Wordsworth and Carlyle . For the great Victorian novelists , the literary past was a blessing ...
... sense of kinship with Schiller and Rousseau , and Elizabeth Gaskell's Unitarian upbringing contributed to the affinity she later felt with Wordsworth and Carlyle . For the great Victorian novelists , the literary past was a blessing ...
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... sense of the value of fortitude amid suffering . ( The suffering of women as well as workers constitutes the theme of Shirley , but tenaciously held Romantic biases , combined with a mixture of religious and fatalistic beliefs , make it ...
... sense of the value of fortitude amid suffering . ( The suffering of women as well as workers constitutes the theme of Shirley , but tenaciously held Romantic biases , combined with a mixture of religious and fatalistic beliefs , make it ...
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... sense of self - pity , directed back to his own childhood suffering , expanded into a sense of pity and outrage on behalf of other sufferers in the modern world . Chil- dren in his books would henceforth be abused not by fairy - tale ...
... sense of self - pity , directed back to his own childhood suffering , expanded into a sense of pity and outrage on behalf of other sufferers in the modern world . Chil- dren in his books would henceforth be abused not by fairy - tale ...
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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