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Page 162
... Dickens were reading ? Jane Austen had been dead fifteen years , Scott was to die in 1832 itself . Crotchet Castle had appeared in 1831 , Peacock's last novel for thirty years . It was a poor time for fiction , indeed , for writing ...
... Dickens were reading ? Jane Austen had been dead fifteen years , Scott was to die in 1832 itself . Crotchet Castle had appeared in 1831 , Peacock's last novel for thirty years . It was a poor time for fiction , indeed , for writing ...
Page 184
... Dickens's way of character creation was not that of the realist novel- ist ; he was after another kind of reality ... Dickens unduly when we interpret his characters as humors in the Jonsonian sense . Santayana , in his fine essay on ...
... Dickens's way of character creation was not that of the realist novel- ist ; he was after another kind of reality ... Dickens unduly when we interpret his characters as humors in the Jonsonian sense . Santayana , in his fine essay on ...
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... Dickens is con- centrating so exclusively on the obsessional element in be- havior that he is inventing characters ... Dickens's comic charac- ters fail , and it is then , incidentally , that the resulting char- acter is closest to ...
... Dickens is con- centrating so exclusively on the obsessional element in be- havior that he is inventing characters ... Dickens's comic charac- ters fail , and it is then , incidentally , that the resulting char- acter is closest to ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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