The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature

by STEFANIE MARKOVITS

The Ohio State University Press, 2006

Cloth: 978-0-8142-1040-6

Library of Congress Classification PR451.M35 2006

Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9358

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1	Wordsworth¿s Revolution: From The Borderers to The White Doe of Rylstone
Chapter 2	The Case of Clough: Amours de Voyage and the Crisis of Action in Victorian Verse
Chapter 3	¿That girl has some drama in her¿: George Eliot¿s Problem With Action
Chapter 4	Henry James¿s Nefarious Plot: Form and Freedom in the Hands of the Master
Afterword: Adventure Fiction
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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