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rational pattern of society ; abuses of power were deviations from an accepted
norm and could be corrected by an appeal to reason through the voice of ridicule
. But society was not static as Fielding and Smollett believed , and the middle of ...
rational pattern of society ; abuses of power were deviations from an accepted
norm and could be corrected by an appeal to reason through the voice of ridicule
. But society was not static as Fielding and Smollett believed , and the middle of ...
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there shines through her work the personality of a wholly admirable woman in
harmony with the society in which she finds herself . Apart from her writing , she
had a full life as the wife of a Unitarian minister in Manchester and the mother of a
...
there shines through her work the personality of a wholly admirable woman in
harmony with the society in which she finds herself . Apart from her writing , she
had a full life as the wife of a Unitarian minister in Manchester and the mother of a
...
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with is always corruption of manners , of the code of behavior in decent society .
At the center of the novel is the tremendous figure of the great , shady financier
Melmotte , the magnet of all society , the man for whose support both parties bid .
with is always corruption of manners , of the code of behavior in decent society .
At the center of the novel is the tremendous figure of the great , shady financier
Melmotte , the magnet of all society , the man for whose support both parties bid .
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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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