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Page 110
... less shocking to those of us who were brought up on the pieties of humanitarianism . In Persuasion , the tenderest of her novels , she can write : The real circumstances of this pathetic piece of family history were that the Musgroves ...
... less shocking to those of us who were brought up on the pieties of humanitarianism . In Persuasion , the tenderest of her novels , she can write : The real circumstances of this pathetic piece of family history were that the Musgroves ...
Page 183
... less satirical : the humour is an expression of love , the love that would not have its object changed however absurd it may seem to the world outside . Mrs Gaskell is only less successful in Wives and Daughters because she is working ...
... less satirical : the humour is an expression of love , the love that would not have its object changed however absurd it may seem to the world outside . Mrs Gaskell is only less successful in Wives and Daughters because she is working ...
Page 251
... less convincing because , according to the doctor , he is a boy ' of a sort unknown in the last generation ... the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live ' . The philosophical explanation highlights the sentimentality ; and ...
... less convincing because , according to the doctor , he is a boy ' of a sort unknown in the last generation ... the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live ' . The philosophical explanation highlights the sentimentality ; and ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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