Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-288) and index.
Contents:
Toward an age of eclecticism. History's diverse beauties -- The philosophy of the nineteenth century -- Eclecticism and literary modernity -- Eclectic Victorians. Alfred Tennyson : the originality of medley -- Charles Kingsley : the Alexandrian age -- Matthew Arnold : the second best life -- Walter Pater and Thomas Hardy : "triumph in mutability".
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