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Page 81
... R. W. B. Lewis and many others . We are familiar with the way in which the heroes of American novels are defiant solitaries , preserving their precious burden of innocence and freedom , establishing , however precari- ously , their own ...
... R. W. B. Lewis and many others . We are familiar with the way in which the heroes of American novels are defiant solitaries , preserving their precious burden of innocence and freedom , establishing , however precari- ously , their own ...
Page 83
... R. W. B. Lewis , ' Days of Wrath and Laughter ' , included in his book Trials of The Word . Lewis shows the preoccupation with the biblical apocalypse evident in much nineteenth - century American fiction , and relates it to the ...
... R. W. B. Lewis , ' Days of Wrath and Laughter ' , included in his book Trials of The Word . Lewis shows the preoccupation with the biblical apocalypse evident in much nineteenth - century American fiction , and relates it to the ...
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... R. W. B. Lewis ( Trials of the Word , 1965 : p . 231 ) sug- gestively relates V. to Gudrun in Lawrence's Women in Love , who is described as ' a new Daphne , turning not into a tree but a machine ' . Certainly Women in Love is full of ...
... R. W. B. Lewis ( Trials of the Word , 1965 : p . 231 ) sug- gestively relates V. to Gudrun in Lawrence's Women in Love , who is described as ' a new Daphne , turning not into a tree but a machine ' . Certainly Women in Love is full of ...
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