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As an embodiment of a sensual and sexually attractive girl, Hetty Sorrel is worth
all Thackeray's young women put together, and it is her intensely natural effect on
Arthur Donnithorne that makes him, as I'homme moyen sensuel, a much finer ...
As an embodiment of a sensual and sexually attractive girl, Hetty Sorrel is worth
all Thackeray's young women put together, and it is her intensely natural effect on
Arthur Donnithorne that makes him, as I'homme moyen sensuel, a much finer ...
Page 203
Of the good women, Amelia* and Mrs. Pendennis are quite frankly depicted as
stupid almost to the point of imbecility. Yet again the ambiguity intervenes; their
stupidity and its consequences, their lives as doting mothers and "tender little ...
Of the good women, Amelia* and Mrs. Pendennis are quite frankly depicted as
stupid almost to the point of imbecility. Yet again the ambiguity intervenes; their
stupidity and its consequences, their lives as doting mothers and "tender little ...
Page 348
He writes in Born in Exile: "Godwin was one of those upon whose awaking
intellect is forced a perception of the brain-defect so general in women when they
are taught few of life's graces and none of its serious concerns — their paltry ...
He writes in Born in Exile: "Godwin was one of those upon whose awaking
intellect is forced a perception of the brain-defect so general in women when they
are taught few of life's graces and none of its serious concerns — their paltry ...
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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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