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Page 145
... stand as types , were The . really exercises in rhetoric , attempts at heightened narrative , at a CAXTONS bastard ... stands out as a most illuminating example of the misuse of literary sources , of a crashing , totally disastrous ...
... stand as types , were The . really exercises in rhetoric , attempts at heightened narrative , at a CAXTONS bastard ... stands out as a most illuminating example of the misuse of literary sources , of a crashing , totally disastrous ...
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... stand the heroines of Shakespeare , Sophia Western , and Amelia . In the Barset novels Trollope populated a whole county in the most satisfying detail and diversity ; but there is no hard and fast distinction between the later novels of ...
... stand the heroines of Shakespeare , Sophia Western , and Amelia . In the Barset novels Trollope populated a whole county in the most satisfying detail and diversity ; but there is no hard and fast distinction between the later novels of ...
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... standing - room ' . James is making a claim for the novelist not exactly new - in her own way George Eliot would ... stand or fall by its significant simplicity . ' With this James had no difficulty in agreeing . Of course , art , in ...
... standing - room ' . James is making a claim for the novelist not exactly new - in her own way George Eliot would ... stand or fall by its significant simplicity . ' With this James had no difficulty in agreeing . Of course , art , in ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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