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Page 110
... simply that she is seeing the situation as it is , facing the facts , as she faces the facts about her mother : ' She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram , but Mrs Norris would have been a more ...
... simply that she is seeing the situation as it is , facing the facts , as she faces the facts about her mother : ' She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram , but Mrs Norris would have been a more ...
Page 113
... simply , that he made the European novel and say something much more true than such sweeping generalizations normally are . And his influence was not confined to fiction . Without being in the strict sense an historian , he ...
... simply , that he made the European novel and say something much more true than such sweeping generalizations normally are . And his influence was not confined to fiction . Without being in the strict sense an historian , he ...
Page 263
... simply invoking , as models for what he wants to do , arts more formal , more highly organized than the novel has normally been . To dramatize meant to present intensely , so that the last drop of value could be squeezed from the scene ...
... simply invoking , as models for what he wants to do , arts more formal , more highly organized than the novel has normally been . To dramatize meant to present intensely , so that the last drop of value could be squeezed from the scene ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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