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... writer of genius , but the writing of plays was at least compatible with being a gentleman . It was not yet so with fiction writing . Its public was ' low ' , its status that of a commodity for the masses which bore , in the eyes of men ...
... writer of genius , but the writing of plays was at least compatible with being a gentleman . It was not yet so with fiction writing . Its public was ' low ' , its status that of a commodity for the masses which bore , in the eyes of men ...
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... writers cannot take away from Defoe's originality . In writing Crusoe he was not , of course , consciously writing a novel : he was writing a spoof- autobiography which was to be taken by his readers as fact . Crusoe sums up , as it ...
... writers cannot take away from Defoe's originality . In writing Crusoe he was not , of course , consciously writing a novel : he was writing a spoof- autobiography which was to be taken by his readers as fact . Crusoe sums up , as it ...
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... writing Joseph Andrews , he should not long be content with reforming Samuel Richardson's manners alone . Like most of the greater eighteenth - century writers he saw him- self as a moralist and satirist , but he was much more besides ...
... writing Joseph Andrews , he should not long be content with reforming Samuel Richardson's manners alone . Like most of the greater eighteenth - century writers he saw him- self as a moralist and satirist , but he was much more besides ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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