A Literary History of England: The Restoration and eighteenth century, 1660-1789, by George SherburnAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1948 - 1673 pages |
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... detail ; Fielding added structure , style , and a realistic attitude towards life ; and Smollett excelled in the invention and crisp presentation of unforgettably vivid burlesque episode . Through these men fiction acquired a sense of ...
... detail ; Fielding added structure , style , and a realistic attitude towards life ; and Smollett excelled in the invention and crisp presentation of unforgettably vivid burlesque episode . Through these men fiction acquired a sense of ...
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... detail or episode that best character- izes the economy of Fielding's art in this story . Every appearance of At- torney Dowling , for example , signals information to the reader clearly but not too obviously . The bank note ...
... detail or episode that best character- izes the economy of Fielding's art in this story . Every appearance of At- torney Dowling , for example , signals information to the reader clearly but not too obviously . The bank note ...
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... detail must induce imagina- tive recall , but the detail may be small since " There is nothing , Sir , too little for so little a creature as man . ” The sort of imaginative recall demanded by art ( in Johnson's opinion ) is that which ...
... detail must induce imagina- tive recall , but the detail may be small since " There is nothing , Sir , too little for so little a creature as man . ” The sort of imaginative recall demanded by art ( in Johnson's opinion ) is that which ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 696 |
Literary Criticism of the Restoration | 710 |
III The Poetry of Dryden | 722 |
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