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The hero in eclipse in Victorian fiction

Author: Mario Praz
Publisher: London ; New York ; Oxford University Press, 1956.
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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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Praz, Mario, 1896-
Hero in eclipse in Victorian fiction.
London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1956
(OCoLC)573522852
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mario Praz
OCLC Number: 350353
Notes: Translation of: La crisi del'eroe nel romanzo vittoriano.
Description: 478 p., [37] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction : Genre painting and the novel --
pt. 1. Romanticism turns bourgeois: Coleridge and Wordsworth --
Sir Walter Scott --
Charles Lamb --
Thomas De Quincey --
Thomas Love Peacock --
Macaulay --
pt. 2. The decline of the hero: Charles Dickens --
William Makepeace Thackeray --
Anthony Trollope --
George Eliot --
[pt. 3.] Appendixes: The epic of the everyday: Coventry Patmore's "The angel in the house" --
Rome and the Victorians.
Other Titles: Crisi del'eroe nel romanzo vittoriano.
Responsibility: by Mario Praz ; translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson.

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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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