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Page 136
... Victorian , especially in its attitude towards sex , had become dominant years before the Queen came to the throne . The tabu on the frank recognition and expression of sex had come into existence slowly and , as it were , almost ...
... Victorian , especially in its attitude towards sex , had become dominant years before the Queen came to the throne . The tabu on the frank recognition and expression of sex had come into existence slowly and , as it were , almost ...
Page 177
... Victorian attitudes to a social problem and the early Victorian fear , which amounted almost to hysteria , of the poor . North and South , for one thing , remains much more closely in its author's range of talent . The most important ...
... Victorian attitudes to a social problem and the early Victorian fear , which amounted almost to hysteria , of the poor . North and South , for one thing , remains much more closely in its author's range of talent . The most important ...
Page 355
... Victorian novelists , 133-4 ; Victorian social consciousness con- trasted with French and Russian , 134-5 ; effect of Victorian idea of respectability on the novel , 135-9 ; European influence , and growth of seriousness in later Victorian ...
... Victorian novelists , 133-4 ; Victorian social consciousness con- trasted with French and Russian , 134-5 ; effect of Victorian idea of respectability on the novel , 135-9 ; European influence , and growth of seriousness in later Victorian ...
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