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... century novel may sometimes feel that he had read it before . In a sense he has . Fielding is the great original in English fiction , and , one way and another , more than half our novelists for more than a hundred years are packed away ...
... century novel may sometimes feel that he had read it before . In a sense he has . Fielding is the great original in English fiction , and , one way and another , more than half our novelists for more than a hundred years are packed away ...
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... century moralist ; but in its beginnings in the eighteenth century sensibility was something more / respectable than the self - indulgence of school- girls . It was another way of coping with the problem of arbitrary power . Behind the ...
... century moralist ; but in its beginnings in the eighteenth century sensibility was something more / respectable than the self - indulgence of school- girls . It was another way of coping with the problem of arbitrary power . Behind the ...
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... century of more intense romanticism , it is hard to see how the world of taste was so long deceived by the second - rate talents of Salvator . But we must realize that he was , in a minor degree , a kind of Byron . He opened a new vein ...
... century of more intense romanticism , it is hard to see how the world of taste was so long deceived by the second - rate talents of Salvator . But we must realize that he was , in a minor degree , a kind of Byron . He opened a new vein ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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