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Page 69
... society , given a unity by their happen- ing to the same man , a rogue . In all but his last fiction , The Expedition of Humphry Clinker , Smollett added nothing to this primitive form of the novel . Except in The Adventures of ...
... society , given a unity by their happen- ing to the same man , a rogue . In all but his last fiction , The Expedition of Humphry Clinker , Smollett added nothing to this primitive form of the novel . Except in The Adventures of ...
Page 88
... society . As for Rousseau , so for Mackenzie - society is always evil , and against society is set the innocence and uncorrupted virtue of the idyllic countryside : ' As to the world - I pity the men of it . ' Along with this rejection ...
... society . As for Rousseau , so for Mackenzie - society is always evil , and against society is set the innocence and uncorrupted virtue of the idyllic countryside : ' As to the world - I pity the men of it . ' Along with this rejection ...
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... society delineated is almost entirely feminine , and the work is a little triumph of literary tact . The narrator is at once of and outside the society described , detached enough to know that it is comic and to rejoice in the comedy ...
... society delineated is almost entirely feminine , and the work is a little triumph of literary tact . The narrator is at once of and outside the society described , detached enough to know that it is comic and to rejoice in the comedy ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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