The World and the Flesh: Victorian Fiction.

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Explores the Divided-Self of Victorian fiction, a consciousness split between word and flesh, duty and love, society and the self, or most generally between one's public role and one's private needs. Such polar themes affect several fictional genres such as the Pastoral, Gothic, Bildunsroman, Historical Novel and Naturalism. The word and flesh dialectic also informs the narrative structure of Victorian fiction.