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... kind of Englishman increasingly prominent during the eighteenth century and reaching its apotheosis in the nineteenth : the man from the lower classes , whose bias was essentially practical and whose success in life , whether in trade ...
... kind of Englishman increasingly prominent during the eighteenth century and reaching its apotheosis in the nineteenth : the man from the lower classes , whose bias was essentially practical and whose success in life , whether in trade ...
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... kind of power and a new kind of man and the breeding places of a new kind of misery . For Bennett , the Potteries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene , as he realized himself ...
... kind of power and a new kind of man and the breeding places of a new kind of misery . For Bennett , the Potteries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene , as he realized himself ...
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... kind , but it is not Hardy's kind . It is , if such a thing is possible , a limited uni- versality , true for a certain kind of community at a certain point in time , a picture of life not only in the Five Towns but in any industrial ...
... kind , but it is not Hardy's kind . It is , if such a thing is possible , a limited uni- versality , true for a certain kind of community at a certain point in time , a picture of life not only in the Five Towns but in any industrial ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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