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It is an exhaustive list of Peacock ' s victims , but his satire at their expense is not
that of the censor or the moralist . Its end is laughter , good - humored , tolerant
laughter at that . As Friar John , in Maid Marian , says : “ The worst thing is good ...
It is an exhaustive list of Peacock ' s victims , but his satire at their expense is not
that of the censor or the moralist . Its end is laughter , good - humored , tolerant
laughter at that . As Friar John , in Maid Marian , says : “ The worst thing is good ...
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For Nightmare Abbey is a satire on the English romantic movement , which
Peacock knew at first hand . Some of the characters at least are suggested by life
: Scythrop is based on Shelley , and not only in his inability to choose between
two ...
For Nightmare Abbey is a satire on the English romantic movement , which
Peacock knew at first hand . Some of the characters at least are suggested by life
: Scythrop is based on Shelley , and not only in his inability to choose between
two ...
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This makes Peacock ' s satire the best - natured in the world . It glows with
sympathy , and , when appropriate , bursts into beauty in its own right . For
Peacock was always a poet , and he is never more a poet than in his satirical
novels .
This makes Peacock ' s satire the best - natured in the world . It glows with
sympathy , and , when appropriate , bursts into beauty in its own right . For
Peacock was always a poet , and he is never more a poet than in his satirical
novels .
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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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