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We feel that Fielding knows everything there is to know about his characters even
though he does not tell us all. They are so real to him that, even though he may
give us no more than a glimpse of them, they become real for us. Behind every ...
We feel that Fielding knows everything there is to know about his characters even
though he does not tell us all. They are so real to him that, even though he may
give us no more than a glimpse of them, they become real for us. Behind every ...
Page 93
But even then the background of scenery exists to feed Emily's sensibility; it is
material for her feeling. ... From this point of view, The Mysteries of Udolpho may
be considered as a machine for making the reader feel similar emotions, The
Alpes ...
But even then the background of scenery exists to feed Emily's sensibility; it is
material for her feeling. ... From this point of view, The Mysteries of Udolpho may
be considered as a machine for making the reader feel similar emotions, The
Alpes ...
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and feeling. 'The ancients', Jung has said, “had, if one may so express it, an
almost exclusively biological appreciation of ... the fullest possible terms what an
infinitely subtle actor, an ideal actor, might make us feel about the figure
represented ...
and feeling. 'The ancients', Jung has said, “had, if one may so express it, an
almost exclusively biological appreciation of ... the fullest possible terms what an
infinitely subtle actor, an ideal actor, might make us feel about the figure
represented ...
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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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