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Romantic Vision and the Novel 

Jay Clayton 
 

Contents

Transcendence and the Novel  

Clarissa  

Pure Poetry/Impure Fiction  

Mansfield Park  

Wuthering Heights  

Wordsworth and the Conflict of Modes  

Little Dorrit  

Adam Bede  

Shelley and the Apocalyptic Character  

Women in Love

  
"This is a brilliantly original work, based on wide reading and sound scholarship."  Professor Edwin Eigner, University of California Riverside
 
"a work of high intelligence and authority, filled with original and incisive insights and very well written."  Professor Eugene Goodheart, Brandeis University
 
Winner: Robert A. Partlow Award, The Dickens Society (1988)
    This contribution to narrative theory examines the way Romantic visionary experience alters narrative structure in the realistic novel. 

    Proposing two models of Romantic vision--the Wordsworthian and Shelleyan--the study defines transcendence as a disruptive pause in narrative, in which the mind's power is first blocked then released onto a higher plane of experience or discourse. 

    Commentary on Romantic Vision and the Novel: 
     

    Article
     
    Daniel R. Schwarz.  "Challenges and Contributions."  In The Case for a Humanistic Poetics.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 159-64. 
     
    Reviews

    Terrence Doody.  "Romantic Victorians."  Novel 22 (1989): 354-56. 

    Jonathan Loesberg.  "Review." Keats-Shelley Journal (1989): 188-90. 

    Anne K. Mellor.  "Review."  Nineteenth-Century Literature (1989): 128-31. 

    Margery Sabin.  "Review."  Comparative Literature 43 (1991): 108-10. 

    Michael Steig.  "Review."  Victorian Studies (Winter 1989): 263-65. 

    Garrett Stewart.  "Review."  English Language Notes (June 1989): 85-88. 
     
     

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    New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987
 
 
 
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