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... fully appreciate the irony by which Jane Austen undercuts Elizabeth Bennet when she is judging and acting wrongly . Morality in Jane Austen's fictional world is inseparable from her art . Examining the traditional , Johnsonian moral ...
... fully appreciate the irony by which Jane Austen undercuts Elizabeth Bennet when she is judging and acting wrongly . Morality in Jane Austen's fictional world is inseparable from her art . Examining the traditional , Johnsonian moral ...
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... fully what Samuel Johnson calls in Rasselas the " dangerous prevalence of imagination " ( R , xliii , 189 ) . Second , by teaching heroine and reader alike to see things not as they are imagined but as they actually are , the comic ...
... fully what Samuel Johnson calls in Rasselas the " dangerous prevalence of imagination " ( R , xliii , 189 ) . Second , by teaching heroine and reader alike to see things not as they are imagined but as they actually are , the comic ...
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... fully in fictional characters the complexities which her Johnsonian moral heritage doubtless made available to her . That it is a Johnsonian heritage with which Jane Austen's best work is fully endowed should remind us , moreover , of ...
... fully in fictional characters the complexities which her Johnsonian moral heritage doubtless made available to her . That it is a Johnsonian heritage with which Jane Austen's best work is fully endowed should remind us , moreover , of ...
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Imagination in Northanger Abbey | 15 |
Hardship Recollection | 37 |
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