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... Princess Casamassima has been among the least regarded of James's novels . Perhaps it never wholly recovered from the bad press it had on publication . But there is another reason . Our notion of the social revolution and of ...
... Princess Casamassima has been among the least regarded of James's novels . Perhaps it never wholly recovered from the bad press it had on publication . But there is another reason . Our notion of the social revolution and of ...
Page 261
... Princess Casamassima is a great novel ; and one further quality of it must be noted , a characteristic of James's ... Princess herself . This is one source of the abiding satisfaction we feel from The Princess Casamassima , as is ...
... Princess Casamassima is a great novel ; and one further quality of it must be noted , a characteristic of James's ... Princess herself . This is one source of the abiding satisfaction we feel from The Princess Casamassima , as is ...
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... Princess Casamassima for all that it is not in any sense a detach- able background but caught , reflected , and refracted through the con- sciousness of the characters moving through it . But how does Virginia Woolf manage to give ...
... Princess Casamassima for all that it is not in any sense a detach- able background but caught , reflected , and refracted through the con- sciousness of the characters moving through it . But how does Virginia Woolf manage to give ...
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