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Fielding decided that Pamela should have a brother, a virtuous footman named
Joseph, who would repulse the advances ... for, having discovered the form of the
novel, Fielding went on to do something quite different from merely poking fun at
...
Fielding decided that Pamela should have a brother, a virtuous footman named
Joseph, who would repulse the advances ... for, having discovered the form of the
novel, Fielding went on to do something quite different from merely poking fun at
...
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Squire Western is, in fact, a drunken boor, one of those centres of arbitrary power
Fielding loathed. Fielding, it has become a cliché of criticism, was “a man's man',
and his heroines are the women of a man's man. Sophia Western is scarcely ...
Squire Western is, in fact, a drunken boor, one of those centres of arbitrary power
Fielding loathed. Fielding, it has become a cliché of criticism, was “a man's man',
and his heroines are the women of a man's man. Sophia Western is scarcely ...
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The plot is not a bad plot, and it is certainly not unskilfully handled; but it is the
wrong plot for the novel Fielding was writing. The reader who comes to Fielding's
fiction with some acquaintance already with the nineteenth-century novel may ...
The plot is not a bad plot, and it is certainly not unskilfully handled; but it is the
wrong plot for the novel Fielding was writing. The reader who comes to Fielding's
fiction with some acquaintance already with the nineteenth-century novel may ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Volume 9 of Dutton Paperback: D Pelican books |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Publisher | Phoenix House, 1954 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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