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Mrs. Radcliffe did not have the power of skilfully creating character , nor of permitting character development under the stress of incident . Her characters are elemental types , and she relied for effect upon abundant incident and the ...
Mrs. Radcliffe did not have the power of skilfully creating character , nor of permitting character development under the stress of incident . Her characters are elemental types , and she relied for effect upon abundant incident and the ...
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I. ) All the sympathetic characters of the book are touched by the influences of nature , while the unsympathetic ... indeed this is often the first indication the reader has of into which category he is supposed to place a character .
I. ) All the sympathetic characters of the book are touched by the influences of nature , while the unsympathetic ... indeed this is often the first indication the reader has of into which category he is supposed to place a character .
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Villainy therefore was confined to the lesser characters , those of lower rank ; and the central characters , Leicester and the ... Scott achieved a considerable measure of accuracy in his estimate of the character of the Virgin Queen .
Villainy therefore was confined to the lesser characters , those of lower rank ; and the central characters , Leicester and the ... Scott achieved a considerable measure of accuracy in his estimate of the character of the Virgin Queen .
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Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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