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 143
... sympathy for the poor , was close in temperament and manner to eighteenth - century novelists like Smollett for whom the role of the poor in fiction was to provide comic relief . Wordsworth's crucial example , in the Lyrical Ballads as ...
... sympathy for the poor , was close in temperament and manner to eighteenth - century novelists like Smollett for whom the role of the poor in fiction was to provide comic relief . Wordsworth's crucial example , in the Lyrical Ballads as ...
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... sympathy in an otherwise hostile world . In stark contrast to Alice is the brilliantly conceived figure of Mary's father , John Barton ; and if Alice is Gaskell's model of resignation , the rebellious Barton draws forth her deeper sympathy ...
... sympathy in an otherwise hostile world . In stark contrast to Alice is the brilliantly conceived figure of Mary's father , John Barton ; and if Alice is Gaskell's model of resignation , the rebellious Barton draws forth her deeper sympathy ...
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... sympathies , betray a Romantic sensibility . The praise of Ruskin's doctrine is accompanied by praise for Rus- kin's prophetic manner - his rhetorical - vatic ability to " compel men's attention and sympathy . " " Very correct singing ...
... sympathies , betray a Romantic sensibility . The praise of Ruskin's doctrine is accompanied by praise for Rus- kin's prophetic manner - his rhetorical - vatic ability to " compel men's attention and sympathy . " " Very correct singing ...
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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