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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... turned their criticisms against the ravages of the Industrial Revolution at home , provoking a Romantic reaction against the misapplication of individual initiative.15 The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction That the Romantics may 9.
... turned their criticisms against the ravages of the Industrial Revolution at home , provoking a Romantic reaction against the misapplication of individual initiative.15 The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction That the Romantics may 9.
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... turned political activist , is the first of Meredith's " New Women " in whom the courage , dedication , and ... turning back to the romance tradition , bypassed the Romantic poets ' celebration of woman's quiescent and submissive ...
... turned political activist , is the first of Meredith's " New Women " in whom the courage , dedication , and ... turning back to the romance tradition , bypassed the Romantic poets ' celebration of woman's quiescent and submissive ...
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... turned his back on his romantic dreams , which he realizes to have been bred by egoism , and has returned to the solid , sensible values represented by Rivers- ley Grange , he sees the house going up in flames . Roy , in a final gesture ...
... turned his back on his romantic dreams , which he realizes to have been bred by egoism , and has returned to the solid , sensible values represented by Rivers- ley Grange , he sees the house going up in flames . Roy , in a final gesture ...
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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