British Writers: Retrospective supplement, Volume 2Jay Parini Twenty-two of the most studied and most popular writers in British literature are reexamined in this second retrospective supplement to the British Writers Series. Authors covered include Jane Austen, Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde and others. |
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... Wife of Bath , whose prologue gives a candid account of her view of marriage as a business , exemplified by her five times at the altar , and her aspiration for a sixth ( 3:45 ) The Merchant's story of the cuckolding of the aged January ...
... Wife of Bath , whose prologue gives a candid account of her view of marriage as a business , exemplified by her five times at the altar , and her aspiration for a sixth ( 3:45 ) The Merchant's story of the cuckolding of the aged January ...
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... wife , Lewes was married without the possibility of divorce ( an opportunity he had passed up when he claimed the child of his wife's extramarital union as his own , thus implicitly and legally condoning her continued liaison with the ...
... wife , Lewes was married without the possibility of divorce ( an opportunity he had passed up when he claimed the child of his wife's extramarital union as his own , thus implicitly and legally condoning her continued liaison with the ...
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... Wife indeed , I know those wives ! " ( p . 169 ) . Professor Godbole offers another , specifically Hindu ... wife are on their way , partly to visit Aziz , partly to look at an unfortu- nately nonexistent high school . But Aziz has ...
... Wife indeed , I know those wives ! " ( p . 169 ) . Professor Godbole offers another , specifically Hindu ... wife are on their way , partly to visit Aziz , partly to look at an unfortu- nately nonexistent high school . But Aziz has ...
Contents
Contents | xiii |
List of Contributors | lxix |
ROBERT BROWNING Julie Hearn | 17 |
Copyright | |
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