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Page 124
She takes as her friend not her equal in birth and intellect , Jane Fairfax , but
Harriet Smith , an amiable , stupid girl of ambiguous parentage . She persuades
Harriet that her farmer sweetheart , her equal in birth and superior in intelligence ,
is ...
She takes as her friend not her equal in birth and intellect , Jane Fairfax , but
Harriet Smith , an amiable , stupid girl of ambiguous parentage . She persuades
Harriet that her farmer sweetheart , her equal in birth and superior in intelligence ,
is ...
Page 218
If it were not for the unity of tone , Jane Eyre would be incoherent , for as a
construction it is artless . Yet because of the unity of tone , the melodramatic
incredibilities scarcely matter ; they are false to observed reality but not false to
Charlotte ...
If it were not for the unity of tone , Jane Eyre would be incoherent , for as a
construction it is artless . Yet because of the unity of tone , the melodramatic
incredibilities scarcely matter ; they are false to observed reality but not false to
Charlotte ...
Page 221
We are moved by her more than by Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe ; their passionate
intensity sweeps pity aside . In Villette she went back to the wholly subjective
novel . Lucy Snowe tells her own story , and we are always in her mind . In events
it ...
We are moved by her more than by Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe ; their passionate
intensity sweeps pity aside . In Villette she went back to the wholly subjective
novel . Lucy Snowe tells her own story , and we are always in her mind . In events
it ...
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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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