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Page 92
... importance only to the discovery of classical antiquity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . But as with the ... important as what he actually did . The inspiration of the story came in a dream : he saw the hall and staircase of ...
... importance only to the discovery of classical antiquity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . But as with the ... important as what he actually did . The inspiration of the story came in a dream : he saw the hall and staircase of ...
Page 98
... important as the characters themselves . Mrs Radcliffe , though not to the same extent or in so sophisticated a manner , uses her landscape and castle in this way . There are times in The Mysteries of Udolpho when landscape seems merely ...
... important as the characters themselves . Mrs Radcliffe , though not to the same extent or in so sophisticated a manner , uses her landscape and castle in this way . There are times in The Mysteries of Udolpho when landscape seems merely ...
Page 103
... important . ' The judgement needs ex- panding before it makes sense , but Maria Edgeworth herself was nearly a great novelist , and her purely historical importance must not blind us to the positive merit of her own achievement . Miss ...
... important . ' The judgement needs ex- panding before it makes sense , but Maria Edgeworth herself was nearly a great novelist , and her purely historical importance must not blind us to the positive merit of her own achievement . Miss ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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