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Page 124
... humorous realism ; when Scott is writing in his own language he is quite free of the taboos that were already inhibiting novelists south of the border . He was a man of naturally conventional mind , but it was not a genteel mind , nor ...
... humorous realism ; when Scott is writing in his own language he is quite free of the taboos that were already inhibiting novelists south of the border . He was a man of naturally conventional mind , but it was not a genteel mind , nor ...
Page 125
... humor- ous delineations of eccentricity accreting round a hard core of common sense like Jonathan Oldbuck , portraits of fanaticism like Balfour of Burley and old Deans , and all the long line of surely realized minor figures such as ...
... humor- ous delineations of eccentricity accreting round a hard core of common sense like Jonathan Oldbuck , portraits of fanaticism like Balfour of Burley and old Deans , and all the long line of surely realized minor figures such as ...
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... humorous appreciation of it , but it is the delighted appreciation of someone recording it from the outside and from a superior station . George Eliot is at pains to render her rural speech idiosyncratic not only of individuals but of ...
... humorous appreciation of it , but it is the delighted appreciation of someone recording it from the outside and from a superior station . George Eliot is at pains to render her rural speech idiosyncratic not only of individuals but of ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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