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She is in the tradition of the Shakespearean heroine, seen as a being at once
inferior and superior to the male of the species, but equal never. The mainspring
of her life, unless conscience is outraged, is a gracious obedience. This is to say
...
She is in the tradition of the Shakespearean heroine, seen as a being at once
inferior and superior to the male of the species, but equal never. The mainspring
of her life, unless conscience is outraged, is a gracious obedience. This is to say
...
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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. disappears as he is about to be
arrested for the murder of his mother and is never seen again. The second part
consists of his own confession, ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. disappears as he is about to be
arrested for the murder of his mother and is never seen again. The second part
consists of his own confession, ...
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But as a lover and husband for Dorothea he appears as totally ... " inadequate,
the product, one can only think, of his author's dream- | - fantasies. o " to George
Eliot is seen at her greatest in Middlemarch. Not all her qualities are manifest in it;
...
But as a lover and husband for Dorothea he appears as totally ... " inadequate,
the product, one can only think, of his author's dream- | - fantasies. o " to George
Eliot is seen at her greatest in Middlemarch. Not all her qualities are manifest in it;
...
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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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