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... society itself and in the recording sensibility of the novelist , can be seen in Thackeray's presentation of what amounts to a terrible parody of Queen Caroline's forgiveness of Effie Deans . In Vanity Fair the king's face bestows grace ...
... society itself and in the recording sensibility of the novelist , can be seen in Thackeray's presentation of what amounts to a terrible parody of Queen Caroline's forgiveness of Effie Deans . In Vanity Fair the king's face bestows grace ...
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... society of the good . His destiny is secretly manipulated by a Provi- dence which is the presence of God in the world . But even as early as Oliver Twist Dickens sees the city as a place from which God is absent . Only in the country is ...
... society of the good . His destiny is secretly manipulated by a Provi- dence which is the presence of God in the world . But even as early as Oliver Twist Dickens sees the city as a place from which God is absent . Only in the country is ...
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... society . But in being the end of the apparently stable society of small communities , the new city life shows that society for what it secretly was all along : unstable because resting primarily on human wills . A community of such ...
... society . But in being the end of the apparently stable society of small communities , the new city life shows that society for what it secretly was all along : unstable because resting primarily on human wills . A community of such ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
PART I | 28 |
HYATT H WAGGONER Point of View in Ameri | 47 |
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