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... rendering of them but on his execu- tion of the novel as a whole . John Holloway has shown in The Victorian Sage how Hardy plants his vision of the nature of things , of which his characters are at once testi- mony and victims , and ...
... rendering of them but on his execu- tion of the novel as a whole . John Holloway has shown in The Victorian Sage how Hardy plants his vision of the nature of things , of which his characters are at once testi- mony and victims , and ...
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... rendering it in the novel . By 1740 , both in France and England , the novel was , as it were , in the air , already in existence potentially ; all that was needed was someone to write it ; and Richard- son and Marivaux have much in ...
... rendering it in the novel . By 1740 , both in France and England , the novel was , as it were , in the air , already in existence potentially ; all that was needed was someone to write it ; and Richard- son and Marivaux have much in ...
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... rendering of rural speech and character , George Eliot or Hardy . No answer can be given , if only because we are ... renders his rustic speech more freshly than George Eliot . George Eliot formalizes it , stylizes it . There is a rich ...
... rendering of rural speech and character , George Eliot or Hardy . No answer can be given , if only because we are ... renders his rustic speech more freshly than George Eliot . George Eliot formalizes it , stylizes it . There is a rich ...
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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