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Page 158
... Victorian morality did not in truth square with the facts of life and the actual state of Victorian morals , it was certainly not for want of zeal and will on the part of the Victorians themselves . And the novelists were not behind in ...
... Victorian morality did not in truth square with the facts of life and the actual state of Victorian morals , it was certainly not for want of zeal and will on the part of the Victorians themselves . And the novelists were not behind in ...
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... Victorians . Yet those few years were to make all the difference , and for all that they both went on writing fiction as long as they lived , they remained curiously impervious to the Victorian spirit . Marryat is a most attractive ...
... Victorians . Yet those few years were to make all the difference , and for all that they both went on writing fiction as long as they lived , they remained curiously impervious to the Victorian spirit . Marryat is a most attractive ...
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... Victorian novelists , 153- 155 Victorian social consciousness contrasted with French and Russian , 154-155 effect of Victorian idea of re- spectability on the novel , 156- 161 European influence , and growth of seriousness in later ...
... Victorian novelists , 153- 155 Victorian social consciousness contrasted with French and Russian , 154-155 effect of Victorian idea of re- spectability on the novel , 156- 161 European influence , and growth of seriousness in later ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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