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Page 158
In the Victorian age, publicly at any rate, the law for man and for woman became
the same law. If 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 ...
In the Victorian age, publicly at any rate, the law for man and for woman became
the same law. If 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 ...
Page 163
Marryat, of course, was of a different generation, and came to fiction in middle
age after a distinguished career as a naval officer, but Lytton and Disraeli were
born in the decade before that which saw the births of the great Victorians. Yet
those ...
Marryat, of course, was of a different generation, and came to fiction in middle
age after a distinguished career as a naval officer, but Lytton and Disraeli were
born in the decade before that which saw the births of the great Victorians. Yet
those ...
Page 449
... 113-115 differences between earlier and later Victorian novelists, 153- 155
Victorian social consciousness contrasted with French and Russian, 154-155
effect of Victorian idea of respectability on the novel, 156- 161 European
influence, ...
... 113-115 differences between earlier and later Victorian novelists, 153- 155
Victorian social consciousness contrasted with French and Russian, 154-155
effect of Victorian idea of respectability on the novel, 156- 161 European
influence, ...
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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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