Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 102
... Jane Austen avoided them . She avoided jarring characters too . Two - thirds of her dramatis personae are regular comic character- parts like Mr. Collins or Mrs. Allen . And even those figures with whom she is most in sympathy , even ...
... Jane Austen avoided them . She avoided jarring characters too . Two - thirds of her dramatis personae are regular comic character- parts like Mr. Collins or Mrs. Allen . And even those figures with whom she is most in sympathy , even ...
Page 107
... Jane Austen always succeeded in it . In Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility she sacrifices fact to form . The character of Edward Ferrars , the eccentric conduct of General Tilney , these are too palpably ... JANE AUSTEN 107.
... Jane Austen always succeeded in it . In Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility she sacrifices fact to form . The character of Edward Ferrars , the eccentric conduct of General Tilney , these are too palpably ... JANE AUSTEN 107.
Page 110
... Jane Austen's view rendered less fundamental by the fact that she shows him as a rule not in moments of crisis but ... Jane Austen had . Her eye for the surface of personality is unerring . Not Dickens himself can visualise outward ...
... Jane Austen's view rendered less fundamental by the fact that she shows him as a rule not in moments of crisis but ... Jane Austen had . Her eye for the surface of personality is unerring . Not Dickens himself can visualise outward ...
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