The gentle hero in the Victorian novel : Thackeray, George Eliot & Dickens
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Pamela Loveless Postma (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Charles E. Davis
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to identify and define a character type that recurs in English literature from Chaucer to the present but that has its most complete development in the fiction of the Victorian period. This character type is the gentle hero, a literary construct that provides an alternative to the more familiar English gentleman and the traditional hero and embodies a social morality that is distinctly English and decidedly different from other, more aggressive, heroic models.
The gentle hero in the Victorian novel : Thackeray, George Eliot & Dickens
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- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1991
- Subjects
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, $d 1811-1863 $x Criticism and interpretation
- Eliot, George, $d 1819-1880 $x Criticism and interpretation
- Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870 $x Criticism and interpretation
- Heroes in literature
- English literature $y 19th century