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The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction

by Mario Praz

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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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Genres: Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 823.8 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1837-1899
LCC: PR871 .P712 — Language and Literature English English Literature Prose Prose fiction. The novel

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Published: 1969
Genres: Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 823.8
LCC: PR871 .P712

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