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Of the good women , Amelia and Mrs. Pendennis are quite frankly depicted as stupid almost to the point of imbecility . ... In the presence of the " good woman , " however moronic , Thackeray's satire is suspended in favor of his ...
Of the good women , Amelia and Mrs. Pendennis are quite frankly depicted as stupid almost to the point of imbecility . ... In the presence of the " good woman , " however moronic , Thackeray's satire is suspended in favor of his ...
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It was for women Gissing reserved his fullest sympathy ; his range of women characters is considerably greater than ... of those upon whose awaking intellect is forced a perception of the brain - defect so general in women when they are ...
It was for women Gissing reserved his fullest sympathy ; his range of women characters is considerably greater than ... of those upon whose awaking intellect is forced a perception of the brain - defect so general in women when they are ...
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Another example is the scene in Women in Love in which Birkin throws stones into the pool to shatter the image of the moon. Symbolism of this kind cannot be paraphrased; it can only be experienced. It is probably the rarest kind of ...
Another example is the scene in Women in Love in which Birkin throws stones into the pool to shatter the image of the moon. Symbolism of this kind cannot be paraphrased; it can only be experienced. It is probably the rarest kind of ...
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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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