The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian FictionOxford University Press, 1956 - 478 pages A noted Italian scholar and critic finds, in the Victorian novel, a middle-class preference for the small change of life and draws a parallel between literature and the genre painting of the time. |
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INTRODUCTION Genre Painting and the Novel | 1 |
Notes to the Introduction | 29 |
Coleridge and Wordsworth | 37 |
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