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... his treatment of the situation of their time , and what that situation was is as
plain in his work as in Fielding ' s . Fielding , it has often been said , saw it as his
task to reform the manners of the age ; Richardson , by delineating models of
virtue ...
... his treatment of the situation of their time , and what that situation was is as
plain in his work as in Fielding ' s . Fielding , it has often been said , saw it as his
task to reform the manners of the age ; Richardson , by delineating models of
virtue ...
Page 123
We are not made to feel that Fanny ' s sojourn at Mansfield has made her a snob
or ashamed of her family , but simply that she is seeing the situation as it is ,
facing the facts , as she faces the facts about her mother : " She might have made
just ...
We are not made to feel that Fanny ' s sojourn at Mansfield has made her a snob
or ashamed of her family , but simply that she is seeing the situation as it is ,
facing the facts , as she faces the facts about her mother : " She might have made
just ...
Page 382
It is only in a few passages in The Old Wives ' Tale and The Clayhanger Family
that we are brought face to face not merely with the human situation at a given
date and place in North Staffordshire but with the eternal human situation . This is
to ...
It is only in a few passages in The Old Wives ' Tale and The Clayhanger Family
that we are brought face to face not merely with the human situation at a given
date and place in North Staffordshire but with the eternal human situation . This is
to ...
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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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