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Page 178
... attitude to Blanche Amory , ' I have no doubt there is sexual jealousy on the mother's part ' , that he was aware of something of the significance of his relation to his mother . In any case , it meant that he was not master of a large ...
... attitude to Blanche Amory , ' I have no doubt there is sexual jealousy on the mother's part ' , that he was aware of something of the significance of his relation to his mother . In any case , it meant that he was not master of a large ...
Page 258
... attitude of apology , and it shocks me every whit as much in Trollope as it would have shocked me in Gibbon or Macaulay . James's criticism is not simply that of the conscious craftsman on work that seems to him botched . When he speaks ...
... attitude of apology , and it shocks me every whit as much in Trollope as it would have shocked me in Gibbon or Macaulay . James's criticism is not simply that of the conscious craftsman on work that seems to him botched . When he speaks ...
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... attitude . - But what is his attitude ? Outside his fiction , he has been a great spokesman of the liberal tradition , agnostic , anti - imperialist , anti- authoritarian , concerned with social justice . ' My motto ' , he has written ...
... attitude . - But what is his attitude ? Outside his fiction , he has been a great spokesman of the liberal tradition , agnostic , anti - imperialist , anti- authoritarian , concerned with social justice . ' My motto ' , he has written ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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