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Page 95
... woman , a young woman moving uncritically in the context of mas- culine values . This is one distinction between her and Jane Austen , who , though she does not deny those values , sees them in a wholly feminine context ; and it ...
... woman , a young woman moving uncritically in the context of mas- culine values . This is one distinction between her and Jane Austen , who , though she does not deny those values , sees them in a wholly feminine context ; and it ...
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... Woman in White ( 1860 ) and The Moonstone ( 1868 ) , keep Collins's memory sweet . Both novelists were working at the opposite pole of manner and intention to Trollope , and this itself gives interest to his note on Collins in the ...
... Woman in White ( 1860 ) and The Moonstone ( 1868 ) , keep Collins's memory sweet . Both novelists were working at the opposite pole of manner and intention to Trollope , and this itself gives interest to his note on Collins in the ...
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... Woman in White and The Moonstone , for Armadale is an exercise in pure melodrama based on the notion of doom ... woman " ; it is a protest against the hostility of Victorian society to the woman known to have fallen . It is done with ...
... Woman in White and The Moonstone , for Armadale is an exercise in pure melodrama based on the notion of doom ... woman " ; it is a protest against the hostility of Victorian society to the woman known to have fallen . It is done with ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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