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... attitude to his subject changed ; he went on painting Virgins , but more and more his model is obviously a flesh ... attitudes to themselves , to one another , and to the world about them . So with the appearance of the novel round about ...
... attitude to his subject changed ; he went on painting Virgins , but more and more his model is obviously a flesh ... attitudes to themselves , to one another , and to the world about them . So with the appearance of the novel round about ...
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... attitude of apology , and it shocks me every whit as much in Trollope as it would have shocked me in Gibbon or Macaulay . James's criticism is not simply that of the conscious craftsman on work that seems to him botched . When he speaks ...
... attitude of apology , and it shocks me every whit as much in Trollope as it would have shocked me in Gibbon or Macaulay . James's criticism is not simply that of the conscious craftsman on work that seems to him botched . When he speaks ...
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... attitude . But what is his attitude ? Outside his fiction , he has been a great spokesman of the liberal tradition , agnostic , anti - imperialist , anti- authoritarian , concerned with social justice . ' My motto ' , he has written ...
... attitude . But what is his attitude ? Outside his fiction , he has been a great spokesman of the liberal tradition , agnostic , anti - imperialist , anti- authoritarian , concerned with social justice . ' My motto ' , he has written ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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