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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.

Art and literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticismMiddle class in literatureRomanticismMiddle classHistoryMiddle classes