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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Praz, Mario, 1896- Hero in eclipse in Victorian fiction. London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1956 (OCoLC)573522852 |
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| 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. |
Abstract:
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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