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... nineteenth century . In Meredith's as in many nineteenth century novels , self - realization is a major theme . In the poems one finds a compressed version of it . Discontinuity , mutability , dissembling : these were major pressures ...
... nineteenth century . In Meredith's as in many nineteenth century novels , self - realization is a major theme . In the poems one finds a compressed version of it . Discontinuity , mutability , dissembling : these were major pressures ...
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... nineteenth century . But the quality of such images often seems closer to that of an earlier time . It may be that in Meredith we are witnessing , historically speaking , a consolidation of gains , a synthesis . Meredith's poetry ...
... nineteenth century . But the quality of such images often seems closer to that of an earlier time . It may be that in Meredith we are witnessing , historically speaking , a consolidation of gains , a synthesis . Meredith's poetry ...
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... Nineteenth Century Studies ( London : Chatto and Windus , 1956 ) , pp . 72-79 . .. 66 2. Cf. Joseph Warren Beach , The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth- Century English Poetry . Beach writes : ' God , ' ' Highest , ' ' Master Mind ' are ...
... Nineteenth Century Studies ( London : Chatto and Windus , 1956 ) , pp . 72-79 . .. 66 2. Cf. Joseph Warren Beach , The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth- Century English Poetry . Beach writes : ' God , ' ' Highest , ' ' Master Mind ' are ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO Versions of the Self | 23 |
CHAPTER THREE The Fragility of Narrative Form | 51 |
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