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... moral imagina- tion has been the novel of the last two hundred years . It was never , either aesthetically or morally , a perfect form and its faults and failures can be quickly enumerated . But its great- ness and its practical ...
... moral imagina- tion has been the novel of the last two hundred years . It was never , either aesthetically or morally , a perfect form and its faults and failures can be quickly enumerated . But its great- ness and its practical ...
Page 190
... moral indig- nation , has been inhibited , for the character , through the poetry of the comic placed in his mouth , has been trans- lated to a realm in which moral considerations are strictly irrelevant . Mrs. Gamp , of course , is the ...
... moral indig- nation , has been inhibited , for the character , through the poetry of the comic placed in his mouth , has been trans- lated to a realm in which moral considerations are strictly irrelevant . Mrs. Gamp , of course , is the ...
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... moral beliefs chimed with what appeared to be the findings of contemporary science , particularly heredity , which appeared as a scientific - and scientifically proved - determinism . This gave her fiction great author- ity in its day ...
... moral beliefs chimed with what appeared to be the findings of contemporary science , particularly heredity , which appeared as a scientific - and scientifically proved - determinism . This gave her fiction great author- ity in its day ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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