The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 33
... situation of their time , and what that situation was is as plain in his work as in Fielding's . Fielding , it has often been said , saw it as his task to reform the manners of the age ; Richardson , by delineating models of virtue ...
... situation of their time , and what that situation was is as plain in his work as in Fielding's . Fielding , it has often been said , saw it as his task to reform the manners of the age ; Richardson , by delineating models of virtue ...
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... situation on absurdity of situation in a single scene , and to go on doing it beyond what we expect to be the climax . .. Joseph and Fanny , his sweetheart , are not much more than lay figures or are meant to be . But the other charac ...
... situation on absurdity of situation in a single scene , and to go on doing it beyond what we expect to be the climax . .. Joseph and Fanny , his sweetheart , are not much more than lay figures or are meant to be . But the other charac ...
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... situation as it is , facing the facts , as she faces the facts about her mother : " She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Ber- tram , but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respecta- ble mother of nine children ...
... situation as it is , facing the facts , as she faces the facts about her mother : " She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Ber- tram , but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respecta- ble mother of nine children ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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