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Fielding decided that Pamela should have a brother, a virtuous footman named
Joseph, who would repulse the advances of Lady Booby as his sister had done
those of Lady Booby's nephew, Richardson's Mr. B. It was, as it turned out, a false
...
Fielding decided that Pamela should have a brother, a virtuous footman named
Joseph, who would repulse the advances of Lady Booby as his sister had done
those of Lady Booby's nephew, Richardson's Mr. B. It was, as it turned out, a false
...
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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. Tow- wouse, Parson Trulliber (the finest of
them all, after ...
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. Tow- wouse, Parson Trulliber (the finest of
them all, after ...
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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
heroines of ...
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
heroines of ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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