Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884: The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth CenturyBloomsbury Academic, 1 de set. de 2007 - 304 páginas This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by: |
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... Stancy family , most especially Captain De Stancy , who seeks to win Paula's hand , and to whom Paula is attracted despite her infat- uation with Somerset . Amongst the other significant characters there is also Havill , an architect ...
... Stancy family : ' I wish my castle wasn't burnt ; and I wish you were a De Stancy ! ' ( L 379 ) . Knowledge , like desire , can only search after that which is impossible to attain . A Laodicean concludes therefore with impossibility ...
... Stancy line in the face of Captain De Stancy ( L 166 ) . Hardy's subjects , this ' collection of perceptions ' that are his human figures , ' cannot call upon anything other than themselves ' , and though they are written by the past ...
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The Posthumous | 13 |
Temporal and visual modalities | 19 |
Phantasms of experience or the mechanism of | 26 |
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