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... perverting her native Irish good humour and simplicity into a comic parody of
English aristocratic manners and behaviour; a figure of fun to the ladies who flock
to her balls and routs; a source of endless expense to her weak-willed husband,
...
... perverting her native Irish good humour and simplicity into a comic parody of
English aristocratic manners and behaviour; a figure of fun to the ladies who flock
to her balls and routs; a source of endless expense to her weak-willed husband,
...
Page 221
Casaubon is a terrifying figure of haunted futility. George Eliot's comprehension
of him and pity for him are such that he exists on the grand scale. He too—and
we are made almost against our will to feel this—has within him “a certain
spiritual ...
Casaubon is a terrifying figure of haunted futility. George Eliot's comprehension
of him and pity for him are such that he exists on the grand scale. He too—and
we are made almost against our will to feel this—has within him “a certain
spiritual ...
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Reconciliation is possible; and it comes about through the figure of Mrs Moore,
the old English lady on whom India has such a strange effect and who becomes,
after she leaves India to die on the voyage home, almost a local goddess. She is
...
Reconciliation is possible; and it comes about through the figure of Mrs Moore,
the old English lady on whom India has such a strange effect and who becomes,
after she leaves India to die on the voyage home, almost a local goddess. She is
...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
Copyright | |
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| 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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