Quote Originally Posted by Raven Falcon. View Post
To relate it with Victorian literature, Dickens is pretty well-known for his repetition.
I think Leo Tolstoy actually adopted Dickens' style into his writing. There is big difference, however: Tolstoy's prose is prosaic as opposed to Dickens' poetic prose.
Funny, Mal4mac made a similar point in a different thread a little while back.