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society. He writes like a man born with a skin too few, and affronted in all his
senses by life as he has experienced it; and he flings back at society, with all the
contempt and indignation that he can muster, rather more than he has got. Like
Swift ...
society. He writes like a man born with a skin too few, and affronted in all his
senses by life as he has experienced it; and he flings back at society, with all the
contempt and indignation that he can muster, rather more than he has got. Like
Swift ...
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Behind the satire of Fielding and Smollett lay the idea of a rational pattern of
society; abuses of power were deviations from an accepted norm and could be
corrected by an appeal to reason through the voice of ridicule. But society was
not ...
Behind the satire of Fielding and Smollett lay the idea of a rational pattern of
society; abuses of power were deviations from an accepted norm and could be
corrected by an appeal to reason through the voice of ridicule. But society was
not ...
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Trollope has never received anything like adequate recognition for his sober
appraisals of the psychologically abnormal and the part they play in society. Yet
they add greatly to the depth of his rendering of the social scene, for, among
other ...
Trollope has never received anything like adequate recognition for his sober
appraisals of the psychologically abnormal and the part they play in society. Yet
they add greatly to the depth of his rendering of the social scene, for, among
other ...
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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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