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    Thomas Hardy and the consequences of agnosticism by Kramer, K

    Published 2007
    “…Chapter Three investigates Hardy's critical reinterpretation of two of Leslie Stephen's agnostic essays in <em>A Pair of Blue Eyes</em> and <em>The Return of the Native</em>. …”
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    Autobiography and the problem of finish by Sullivan, H

    Published 2011
    “…This essay compares several heavily rewritten autobiographies from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Leslie Stephen’s Mausoleum Book, Virginia Woolf ’s “A Sketch of the Past” and James Joyce’s novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. …”
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    Writing Out of Place: Wordsworth and Woolf in London by Laurent Folliot, Juliana Lopoukhine

    Published 2019-12-01
    “…Although Wordsworth’s country rambles have often been associated with the kind of patriarchal culture epitomised by Woolf’s father Leslie Stephen (who even penned an essay entitled “In Praise of Walking”), the London perambulations recounted in Book VII of The Prelude present suggestive analogies, as well as contrasts, with Woolf’s Modernist city heuristics. …”
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    Virginia Woolf and literary objects: description, philosophy, and affect by Alexander, M

    Published 2021
    “…However, Woolf is ambivalent about subject-object intimacy because objects tacitly inculcate a doctrine of the “real” by reifying social forms; furthermore, many traditions of subject-object intimacy cloak a radical subjectivism that threatens the object qua object by defining the object as a private sense-impression. Woolf’s father, Leslie Stephen, powerfully summarised how eighteenth-century empiricism’s emphasis on psycho-sensory privacy led to a rejection of mind-independent objects that, in turn, ultimately attenuates language, time and intersubjectivity. …”
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    THE AESTHETIC REGIME IN THE MODERN ERA: ART AND DISCOURSE ON ART by Olha T. Bandrovska

    Published 2023-12-01
    “…Seminal literary-critical essays of the eighteenth century, including works by Joseph Addison, Henry Home, Richard Hurd, and Leslie Stephen’s monograph ‘History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century”, are analyzed. …”
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    The theory of fiction in England, 1860-1900 by Graham, K, Graham, G. Kenneth

    Published 1962
    “…Didacticism is also widely attacked, on the grounds that it causes unnaturalness and that values should be in some way dramatised and made inherent, but again, few details are given of this proper method, most accounts, like Leslie Stephen's and Saintsbury's, returning to the moral quality of the writer's imagination. …”
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