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... represents Richardson's ideal of manly virtue as Pamela his ideal of female virtue . It was a deliberate attempt to ... represent is a series of variations on the theme of his goodness . Faced with so formidable a literary innovator as ...
... represents Richardson's ideal of manly virtue as Pamela his ideal of female virtue . It was a deliberate attempt to ... represent is a series of variations on the theme of his goodness . Faced with so formidable a literary innovator as ...
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... represents the feminization of Fielding's art . It involved , of course , a tremendous diminution of Fielding's ... represent the entry of the lady into English fiction . They also represent the entry of the modern notion of class . In ...
... represents the feminization of Fielding's art . It involved , of course , a tremendous diminution of Fielding's ... represent the entry of the lady into English fiction . They also represent the entry of the modern notion of class . In ...
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... represents a form of power in its declension : he is the British merchant ; the man of the future is the industrialist . And one of the two great symbols in the book is precisely that of contemporary industrialization at its most ...
... represents a form of power in its declension : he is the British merchant ; the man of the future is the industrialist . And one of the two great symbols in the book is precisely that of contemporary industrialization at its most ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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