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... plot is not a bad plot , and it is certainly not unskillfully handled , but it is the wrong plot for the novel Fielding was writing . The reader who comes to Fielding's fiction with some acquaintance already with the nineteenth ...
... plot is not a bad plot , and it is certainly not unskillfully handled , but it is the wrong plot for the novel Fielding was writing . The reader who comes to Fielding's fiction with some acquaintance already with the nineteenth ...
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... plot of the eighteenth - century novel- ists , with its young hero on whom the thread of action is hung and its romantic love interest . The great authority of Scott gave this kind of plot another half century of life in the English ...
... plot of the eighteenth - century novel- ists , with its young hero on whom the thread of action is hung and its romantic love interest . The great authority of Scott gave this kind of plot another half century of life in the English ...
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... plot . Again House sums up : " One of the reasons why , in the fifties , his novels begin to show a greater com- plication of plot than before , is that he was intending to use them as a vehicle for more concentrated sociological ...
... plot . Again House sums up : " One of the reasons why , in the fifties , his novels begin to show a greater com- plication of plot than before , is that he was intending to use them as a vehicle for more concentrated sociological ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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