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Page 63
... early novels . Moll Flanders , Clarissa Harlowe and even Robinson Crusoe ( truth is stranger than fiction ! ) are particular and lifelike , whereas previous writers had used names allegori- cally to suggest qualities or types ( Malvolio ...
... early novels . Moll Flanders , Clarissa Harlowe and even Robinson Crusoe ( truth is stranger than fiction ! ) are particular and lifelike , whereas previous writers had used names allegori- cally to suggest qualities or types ( Malvolio ...
Page 82
... early seventeenth century and between one and two hundred of these collections date from the early part of Richardson's own century . Ruth Perry in Women , Letters and the Novel ( 1980 ) has speculated that the adoption of this format ...
... early seventeenth century and between one and two hundred of these collections date from the early part of Richardson's own century . Ruth Perry in Women , Letters and the Novel ( 1980 ) has speculated that the adoption of this format ...
Page 138
... early chapters . Many critics have observed that a passive central character appears in most of Dickens's early novels and this character is generally a child . Like Little Nell , Paul Dombey and later on Little Dorrit and Jo the ...
... early chapters . Many critics have observed that a passive central character appears in most of Dickens's early novels and this character is generally a child . Like Little Nell , Paul Dombey and later on Little Dorrit and Jo the ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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