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... heroine and Lovelace . V. S. Pritchett has said that Richardson was mad - mad about sex , and I doubt whether it is ... heroine ; yet she does , for it is not her virtue as such , but her sufferings and her intransigence under suffering ...
... heroine and Lovelace . V. S. Pritchett has said that Richardson was mad - mad about sex , and I doubt whether it is ... heroine ; yet she does , for it is not her virtue as such , but her sufferings and her intransigence under suffering ...
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... heroines of Dickens or , for instance , Thackeray's Laura . ? Fielding's most fully drawn heroine is Amelia , in the novel of that name , his last , published in 1751. Amelia has always rather worried Fielding's critics . It is a much ...
... heroines of Dickens or , for instance , Thackeray's Laura . ? Fielding's most fully drawn heroine is Amelia , in the novel of that name , his last , published in 1751. Amelia has always rather worried Fielding's critics . It is a much ...
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... heroine's mind as she moves in society , her hesita- tions , her doubts , her agonies at the social solecisms she commits , her analysis of her heart when in love . This came from Richardson . But the exploration of emotion and moral ...
... heroine's mind as she moves in society , her hesita- tions , her doubts , her agonies at the social solecisms she commits , her analysis of her heart when in love . This came from Richardson . But the exploration of emotion and moral ...
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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