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What had formerly seemed to the mass of his British readers profoundly alien ,
even monstrous , modes of worship were made to appear natural by his
acceptance of them and his unheated accounts of them . The religious fanaticism
of ...
What had formerly seemed to the mass of his British readers profoundly alien ,
even monstrous , modes of worship were made to appear natural by his
acceptance of them and his unheated accounts of them . The religious fanaticism
of ...
Page 134
Scott ' s attitude towards his characters , like his acceptance of the world in which
he lived , is very much akin to Chaucer ' s . ... He accepted and rendered quite
naturally the contrasts of class ; as Bagehot , discussing Scott ' s treat ment of the
...
Scott ' s attitude towards his characters , like his acceptance of the world in which
he lived , is very much akin to Chaucer ' s . ... He accepted and rendered quite
naturally the contrasts of class ; as Bagehot , discussing Scott ' s treat ment of the
...
Page 156
But broadly , the early Victorians accepted the idea of progress without much
question . The age represented the triumph of protestantism , and perhaps its
great achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea of respectability . It
was a ...
But broadly , the early Victorians accepted the idea of progress without much
question . The age represented the triumph of protestantism , and perhaps its
great achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea of respectability . It
was a ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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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, 1954 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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