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... consciousness ' , which is particularly noticeable in literary criticism , where ' marked moral intensity ' is the cardinal virtue . This consciousness heavily stresses certain pri- vate virtues , such as inner strength and integrity ...
... consciousness ' , which is particularly noticeable in literary criticism , where ' marked moral intensity ' is the cardinal virtue . This consciousness heavily stresses certain pri- vate virtues , such as inner strength and integrity ...
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... consciousness that he analyses so effectively . I think it is possible , even probable , that the English - who are by no means incapable of radical transforma- tions , as the political and cultural revolutions of the seventeenth ...
... consciousness that he analyses so effectively . I think it is possible , even probable , that the English - who are by no means incapable of radical transforma- tions , as the political and cultural revolutions of the seventeenth ...
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... conscious pastiche . I should , however , add that one critic of Snow's work , Stephen Wall , has objected to the association of Snow with Trollope : ' C. P. Snow is sometimes said to be the new Trollope : if only he were . If only he ...
... conscious pastiche . I should , however , add that one critic of Snow's work , Stephen Wall , has objected to the association of Snow with Trollope : ' C. P. Snow is sometimes said to be the new Trollope : if only he were . If only he ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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