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... Victorians sustain the Romantic belief in the holiness of the heart's affections , in the efficacious guidance -- creative and moral -- given by the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling . Victorian sentimental- ity , earnestness ...
... Victorians sustain the Romantic belief in the holiness of the heart's affections , in the efficacious guidance -- creative and moral -- given by the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling . Victorian sentimental- ity , earnestness ...
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... Victorian novelists ' responses to the Romantic political spirit , though , illustrate the Victorians ' ambivalence toward Romanticism . On the one hand , Victorian writers were skeptical of the exuberance and morality of politically ...
... Victorian novelists ' responses to the Romantic political spirit , though , illustrate the Victorians ' ambivalence toward Romanticism . On the one hand , Victorian writers were skeptical of the exuberance and morality of politically ...
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... Victorian People : A Reassessment of Persons and Themes , 1851-67 . University of Chicago Press : Chicago , 1955 . Buckley , Jerome H. The Victorian Temper : A study of Literary Culture . Harvard University Press : Cam- bridge , Mass ...
... Victorian People : A Reassessment of Persons and Themes , 1851-67 . University of Chicago Press : Chicago , 1955 . Buckley , Jerome H. The Victorian Temper : A study of Literary Culture . Harvard University Press : Cam- bridge , Mass ...
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