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Small Beer and Moral Law
Korg, Jacob | June 9, 1956 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction," by Mario Praz. The key word of this elaborate study of Victorian fiction is "Biedermeier," the style of gentle, naive intimacy and normality that has a German name and is now generally connected with period furniture, but characterizes most of the art and culture of nineteenth-century Western Europe. Biedermeier, as formulated by Praz, is the compound of common sense, seriousness, sentimentality, piety and propriety that was regarded as an ideal until about fifty years ago and has been detested as "Victorianism" ever since.

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HERO in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction, The (Book); BIEDERMEIER; ENGLISH literature -- 19th century; PRAZ, Mario; GERMAN literature -- 19th century -- History & criticism; STYLE, Literary
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