Light in a Dark Place: Romanticism in the Victorian Social-political Novel : a Critical Anthology |
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Page vii
... novel in Victorian literature courses because aspects of the Victorian period are better illustrated by the novel than by poetry and argumenta- tive prose . But the purpose of the text is more prag- matic than polemical . Because of the ...
... novel in Victorian literature courses because aspects of the Victorian period are better illustrated by the novel than by poetry and argumenta- tive prose . But the purpose of the text is more prag- matic than polemical . Because of the ...
Page xv
... novel implies that social archetypes may achieve full regeneration , but real people most often do not . Another issue of the Victorian period confronted more fully in the novel than in Victorian poetry and essays is the problem of ...
... novel implies that social archetypes may achieve full regeneration , but real people most often do not . Another issue of the Victorian period confronted more fully in the novel than in Victorian poetry and essays is the problem of ...
Page 145
... novel , George Eliot has reservations about efficacy of feeling , intuition , and heart in the brutal realm of contemporary politics . The novel begins in an " anti- Victorian " mood . With Wordswor- thian landscape portraits rich in ...
... novel , George Eliot has reservations about efficacy of feeling , intuition , and heart in the brutal realm of contemporary politics . The novel begins in an " anti- Victorian " mood . With Wordswor- thian landscape portraits rich in ...
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Benjamin Disraeli Sybil or The Two Nations | 1 |
Tailor and Poet | 55 |
Charlotte Bronte Shirley | 107 |
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