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Page 313
... James family , then , evil was not an abstract qual- ity but something known , painfully , at first hand , and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry James's work , felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence , as in his ...
... James family , then , evil was not an abstract qual- ity but something known , painfully , at first hand , and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry James's work , felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence , as in his ...
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... James's especially evident here because of the range of social scene he was committed to . This quality is the charity of James's mind , his truly luminous compassion . He weighs the worth of his characters as scrupulously as Jane ...
... James's especially evident here because of the range of social scene he was committed to . This quality is the charity of James's mind , his truly luminous compassion . He weighs the worth of his characters as scrupulously as Jane ...
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... James sentence is akin to analyzing a complex stanza in poetry . Here is an example from The Wings of the Dove of James's style at work : It was perfectly present to Kate that she might be devoured , and she likened herself to a ...
... James sentence is akin to analyzing a complex stanza in poetry . Here is an example from The Wings of the Dove of James's style at work : It was perfectly present to Kate that she might be devoured , and she likened herself to a ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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