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Fielding decided that Pamela should have a brother , a virtuous footman named
Joseph , who would repulse the ... a false start , for , having discovered the form
of the novel , Fielding went on to do something quite different from merely poking
...
Fielding decided that Pamela should have a brother , a virtuous footman named
Joseph , who would repulse the ... a false start , for , having discovered the form
of the novel , Fielding went on to do something quite different from merely poking
...
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Now , most of Fielding ' s personages in Joseph Andrews are episodic ; they
appear only once , met and passed in the course of Joseph ' s and Adam ' s
peregrinations . But we feel , of Mrs . Towwouse , Parson Trulliber ( the finest of
them all ...
Now , most of Fielding ' s personages in Joseph Andrews are episodic ; they
appear only once , met and passed in the course of Joseph ' s and Adam ' s
peregrinations . But we feel , of Mrs . Towwouse , Parson Trulliber ( the finest of
them all ...
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This is to say that Fielding ' s conception of the relationship between the sexes
was nearer to Shakespeare ' s than to ours . How superior it was to that of the
greatest Victorian male novelists may be seen by comparing Sophia with the ...
This is to say that Fielding ' s conception of the relationship between the sexes
was nearer to Shakespeare ' s than to ours . How superior it was to that of the
greatest Victorian male novelists may be seen by comparing Sophia with the ...
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Contents
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, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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