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Page 67
... plot is not a bad plot , and it is certainly not unskilfully handled ; but it is the wrong plot for the novel Fielding was writing . The reader who comes to Fielding's fiction with some acquaint- ance already with the nineteenth ...
... plot is not a bad plot , and it is certainly not unskilfully handled ; but it is the wrong plot for the novel Fielding was writing . The reader who comes to Fielding's fiction with some acquaint- ance already with the nineteenth ...
Page 121
... plot of the eighteenth - century novelists , with its young hero on whom the thread of action is hung and its romantic love - interest . The great authority of Scott gave this kind of plot another half - century of life in the English ...
... plot of the eighteenth - century novelists , with its young hero on whom the thread of action is hung and its romantic love - interest . The great authority of Scott gave this kind of plot another half - century of life in the English ...
Page 170
... plot and the subordination of everything in the book to the working out of the plot , is Dombey and Son . Perhaps he was influenced by Mrs Gaskell , as in later novels he was certainly influenced by Wilkie Collins , who was the greatest ...
... plot and the subordination of everything in the book to the working out of the plot , is Dombey and Son . Perhaps he was influenced by Mrs Gaskell , as in later novels he was certainly influenced by Wilkie Collins , who was the greatest ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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