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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... Woman " ( 1861 ) , whose very title , as well as the " sensational " details of the plot , shows its indebtedness to Wilkie Collins , whose The Woman in White had been published the preceding year . But there is a disturbing note in ...
... Woman " ( 1861 ) , whose very title , as well as the " sensational " details of the plot , shows its indebtedness to Wilkie Collins , whose The Woman in White had been published the preceding year . But there is a disturbing note in ...
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... woman of wit and sensitivity into a depen- dent figure who hopes to do only what Felix will deem right for her ... woman's spiritual nature . Admitting to Edith Simcox that " she had never all her life cared very much for women ...
... woman of wit and sensitivity into a depen- dent figure who hopes to do only what Felix will deem right for her ... woman's spiritual nature . Admitting to Edith Simcox that " she had never all her life cared very much for women ...
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... woman's lot was perfect : that the man she loved was her hero ; that her woman's passion and her reverence for rarest goodness rushed together in an un- divided current " ( II , 313 ) . For woman to be worthy of apprecia- tion , as ...
... woman's lot was perfect : that the man she loved was her hero ; that her woman's passion and her reverence for rarest goodness rushed together in an un- divided current " ( II , 313 ) . For woman to be worthy of apprecia- tion , as ...
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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