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... important than plausibility . Nor did coherence and probability of story mean much to them . Their audiences asked not for a mirroring of life as they knew it - though they were sometimes given it — or for convincing renderings of ...
... important than plausibility . Nor did coherence and probability of story mean much to them . Their audiences asked not for a mirroring of life as they knew it - though they were sometimes given it — or for convincing renderings of ...
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... important . ' The judgment needs ex- panding before it makes sense , but Maria Edgeworth herself was nearly a great novelist , and her purely historical importance must not blind us to the positive merit of her own achievement . Miss ...
... important . ' The judgment needs ex- panding before it makes sense , but Maria Edgeworth herself was nearly a great novelist , and her purely historical importance must not blind us to the positive merit of her own achievement . Miss ...
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... important . He was able to tap a well of nationally cherished superstition , superstition still actual and operative , and he expressed what he found in its own terms . In many respects The Bride of Lammermoor is a farrago of ...
... important . He was able to tap a well of nationally cherished superstition , superstition still actual and operative , and he expressed what he found in its own terms . In many respects The Bride of Lammermoor is a farrago of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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