Light in a Dark Place: Romanticism in the Victorian Social-political Novel : a Critical Anthology |
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... society . Similarly , some Victorian social - political novelists wish to revive medieval conditions and states of mind as the foundations of the perfect nineteenth - century common- wealth : in Sybil Disraeli advocates what is essen ...
... society . Similarly , some Victorian social - political novelists wish to revive medieval conditions and states of mind as the foundations of the perfect nineteenth - century common- wealth : in Sybil Disraeli advocates what is essen ...
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... society ; you prefer it to our existing life . " " Yes , I prefer association to gregariousness . " " That is a distinction , " said Egremont musingly . " It is a community of purpose that constitutes society , " continued the younger ...
... society ; you prefer it to our existing life . " " Yes , I prefer association to gregariousness . " " That is a distinction , " said Egremont musingly . " It is a community of purpose that constitutes society , " continued the younger ...
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... society : the riot suggests a society without purpose or ennobling political vision , a society which is prey to the self- ish , primitive motives of an igno- rant populace . The rioting mob shows that , whatever Holt's faults of ...
... society : the riot suggests a society without purpose or ennobling political vision , a society which is prey to the self- ish , primitive motives of an igno- rant populace . The rioting mob shows that , whatever Holt's faults of ...
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Benjamin Disraeli Sybil or The Two Nations | 1 |
Tailor and Poet | 55 |
Charlotte Bronte Shirley | 107 |
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