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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 ...
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 ...
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let there shines through her work the personality of a wholly To admirable woman in harmony with the society in which she finds herself . Apart from her writing , she had a full a life as the wife of a Unitarian minister in Manchester ...
let there shines through her work the personality of a wholly To admirable woman in harmony with the society in which she finds herself . Apart from her writing , she had a full a life as the wife of a Unitarian minister in Manchester ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
| 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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