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... described . Yet , like Scott , she gained from the fact that the world she described was a finished one . Since it was finished , it was static . It could therefore be described completely ; and in the solidity and comprehensiveness ...
... described . Yet , like Scott , she gained from the fact that the world she described was a finished one . Since it was finished , it was static . It could therefore be described completely ; and in the solidity and comprehensiveness ...
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... described in it have not actually happened . If the novel is successful one must feel that if they were to happen they would do so precisely as the novelist says . The appeal , in other words , is to our knowledge of the nature of man ...
... described in it have not actually happened . If the novel is successful one must feel that if they were to happen they would do so precisely as the novelist says . The appeal , in other words , is to our knowledge of the nature of man ...
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... described more surely than he the miseries of matrimony as they arise from woman's jealousy , shrewishness , and sluttishness . One remembers Harriet Casti , in The Unclassed , in whom all those qualities are combined . But the same ...
... described more surely than he the miseries of matrimony as they arise from woman's jealousy , shrewishness , and sluttishness . One remembers Harriet Casti , in The Unclassed , in whom all those qualities are combined . But the same ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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