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Page 203
Of the good women, Amelia and Mrs. Pendennis are quite frankly depicted as
stupid almost to the point of imbecility. ... In the presence of the “good woman,”
however moronic, Thackeray's satire is suspended in favor of his sentimentality.
Of the good women, Amelia and Mrs. Pendennis are quite frankly depicted as
stupid almost to the point of imbecility. ... In the presence of the “good woman,”
however moronic, Thackeray's satire is suspended in favor of his sentimentality.
Page 348
It was for women Gissing reserved his fullest sympathy; his range of women
characters is considerably greater than ... upon whose awaking intellect is forced
a perception of the brain-defect so general in women when they are taught few of
...
It was for women Gissing reserved his fullest sympathy; his range of women
characters is considerably greater than ... upon whose awaking intellect is forced
a perception of the brain-defect so general in women when they are taught few of
...
Page 349
Artistically, his most successful novels are the two in which women dominate, The
Odd Women (1893) and In the Year of the Jubilee (1894). They are his most
objective works, and they are unmarred by the self-pity and special pleading of
his ...
Artistically, his most successful novels are the two in which women dominate, The
Odd Women (1893) and In the Year of the Jubilee (1894). They are his most
objective works, and they are unmarred by the self-pity and special pleading of
his ...
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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