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billiard room or the smoking room, out oŁ the way of women and children.
Thackeray wistfully said that Fielding was the last writer to be "permitted to depict
to his utmost power a man," and the taboo on sex represented the triumph of
woman.
billiard room or the smoking room, out oŁ the way of women and children.
Thackeray wistfully said that Fielding was the last writer to be "permitted to depict
to his utmost power a man," and the taboo on sex represented the triumph of
woman.
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Fundamental to all her novels is the pupil-master relationship, which is her
rationalization, based on her own limited experience of life outside Haworth, of
one of the commonest sexual dreams of women: the desire to be mastered, but to
be ...
Fundamental to all her novels is the pupil-master relationship, which is her
rationalization, based on her own limited experience of life outside Haworth, of
one of the commonest sexual dreams of women: the desire to be mastered, but to
be ...
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affects Armadale (1866), which is generally considered his best book after The
Woman in White and The Moonstone, for Armadale is an exercise in pure
melodrama based on the notion of doom. Collins presents us with all the facts of
the case ...
affects Armadale (1866), which is generally considered his best book after The
Woman in White and The Moonstone, for Armadale is an exercise in pure
melodrama based on the notion of doom. Collins presents us with all the facts of
the case ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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