... a central fiction form. For male protagonists, the primary issue of the novel turned upon whether social aspiration within the class system could be reconciled with authentic desire and with moral feeling. This conflict in the lives of men, often with autobiographical reference, is played out in Dickens' David Copperfield (1849-1850), Thackeray's Pendennis (1848-1850), and Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895). Like all forms of Victorian fiction ... , the Bildungsroman must be classified by gender, for this was the age in which women were, for the first time, ranked equally with men as writer...

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... Darwin. This is not expressed in his "official poetry", but in his private and most deep felt verses: I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares, Upon the great world's alter-stairs, That slope thro" darkness up to God. I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is ... is not particularly helpful. Most readers read the image as depicting Victorian society? "Dover Beach", then despite some vagueness, is an assured, sophisticated and moving reflection opens the crisis of faith that afflicted mid-nineteenth century Eng...

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