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Page 59
... contemporary commentators including the novelists themselves to remark on the fact . For example , in 1741 Samuel Richardson told Aaron Hill that his first work , Pamela , might possibly ' introduce a new species of writing ...
... contemporary commentators including the novelists themselves to remark on the fact . For example , in 1741 Samuel Richardson told Aaron Hill that his first work , Pamela , might possibly ' introduce a new species of writing ...
Page 87
... contemporary , Jane Austen , whose work seems so radically different in form and content . Fiction Becomes a Commercial Product One of the rare contemporary estimates of the size of the reading public before the nineteenth century was ...
... contemporary , Jane Austen , whose work seems so radically different in form and content . Fiction Becomes a Commercial Product One of the rare contemporary estimates of the size of the reading public before the nineteenth century was ...
Page 92
... contemporary Jane Austen wrote : ' Sir Walter Scott has no business to write novels , especially good ones . It is not fair . He has fame and profit enough as a poet and should not be taking bread out of other people's mouths ...
... contemporary Jane Austen wrote : ' Sir Walter Scott has no business to write novels , especially good ones . It is not fair . He has fame and profit enough as a poet and should not be taking bread out of other people's mouths ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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