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... comes to Clarissa after reading Freud to deny that the novel must have been written by a man who was , even though unconsciously , a sadist in the technical sense ; the loving , lingering , horrified , gloating descriptions of ...
... comes to Clarissa after reading Freud to deny that the novel must have been written by a man who was , even though unconsciously , a sadist in the technical sense ; the loving , lingering , horrified , gloating descriptions of ...
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... comes from delight in idiosyncrasy . Moore's true successor in Naturalism , apart from Bennett in one or two early novels and Riceyman Steps towards the end of his career , is Somerset Maugham ( b . 1874 ) , whose first novel , Liza of ...
... comes from delight in idiosyncrasy . Moore's true successor in Naturalism , apart from Bennett in one or two early novels and Riceyman Steps towards the end of his career , is Somerset Maugham ( b . 1874 ) , whose first novel , Liza of ...
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... come into the book ; it cannot therefore be judged as we judge a novel of James or Moore . But it means that we have to ... comes between us and the brilliantly cold comedy of Butler's exposure of Theobald and Christina , but his running ...
... come into the book ; it cannot therefore be judged as we judge a novel of James or Moore . But it means that we have to ... comes between us and the brilliantly cold comedy of Butler's exposure of Theobald and Christina , but his running ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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