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Page 78
And Dr Primrose was meant to be a figure of satire, almost a butt, a specimen of
foolish optimism, of benevolence that did not know the world. Wisdom is
represented by Burchell, whose job it is to save Primrose and his family from the
...
And Dr Primrose was meant to be a figure of satire, almost a butt, a specimen of
foolish optimism, of benevolence that did not know the world. Wisdom is
represented by Burchell, whose job it is to save Primrose and his family from the
...
Page 127
When one has listed affinities and possible influences one has only said that he
was a satirist, a satirist of a specific kind. ... It is an exhaustive list of Peacock's
victims; but his satire at their expense is not that of the censor or the moralist. Its
end ...
When one has listed affinities and possible influences one has only said that he
was a satirist, a satirist of a specific kind. ... It is an exhaustive list of Peacock's
victims; but his satire at their expense is not that of the censor or the moralist. Its
end ...
Page 129
The satire dazzles; the various aspects of romanticism are unerringly hit off; the
invention is constant; and one part at least of Coleridge is completely caught, that
part of him which replies to Marionetta's question, 'Will you oblige me, Mr Flosky,
...
The satire dazzles; the various aspects of romanticism are unerringly hit off; the
invention is constant; and one part at least of Coleridge is completely caught, that
part of him which replies to Marionetta's question, 'Will you oblige me, Mr Flosky,
...
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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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