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Page 143
... Victorian morality did not in truth square with the facts of life and the actual state of Victorian morals , it was certainly not for want of zeal and will on the part of the Victorians themselves . And the novelists were not behind in ...
... Victorian morality did not in truth square with the facts of life and the actual state of Victorian morals , it was certainly not for want of zeal and will on the part of the Victorians themselves . And the novelists were not behind in ...
Page 185
... 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 372
... Victorian novelists , 139-40 ; Victorian social consciousness con- trasted with French and Russian , 140-1 ; effect of Victorian idea of respectability on the novel , 141-5 ; European influence , and growth of seriousness in later Victorian ...
... Victorian novelists , 139-40 ; Victorian social consciousness con- trasted with French and Russian , 140-1 ; effect of Victorian idea of respectability on the novel , 141-5 ; European influence , and growth of seriousness in later Victorian ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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