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... simply by describing those adventures , Defoe had done more : he had dramatized as sharply as possible the inescapable solitariness of each man in his relation to God and the universe , and it is the index 28 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
... simply by describing those adventures , Defoe had done more : he had dramatized as sharply as possible the inescapable solitariness of each man in his relation to God and the universe , and it is the index 28 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
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... simply a sexual moralist . What Richardson's readers were so ardently responding to was his treatment of the situation of their time , and what that situation was is as plain in his work as in Fielding's . Fielding , it has often been ...
... simply a sexual moralist . What Richardson's readers were so ardently responding to was his treatment of the situation of their time , and what that situation was is as plain in his work as in Fielding's . Fielding , it has often been ...
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... simply , he believed in coincidence . To take an example from The Return of the Native , it is part of the conspiracy of things against the exceptional man that Clym's mother should visit Eustacia , in order to make the peace between ...
... simply , he believed in coincidence . To take an example from The Return of the Native , it is part of the conspiracy of things against the exceptional man that Clym's mother should visit Eustacia , in order to make the peace between ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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