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... give the experience of a finished work of art because he deliberately shapes , or tries to give the appearance of shaping , his novels according to classical models . Defoe's generation absorbed these literary changes and rede- fined ...
... give the experience of a finished work of art because he deliberately shapes , or tries to give the appearance of shaping , his novels according to classical models . Defoe's generation absorbed these literary changes and rede- fined ...
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... give an " Idea " of a thing was to give a perfect image , the most exact picture that could be rendered ( OED ) . Defoe is promising that most reliable of all delights offered by fiction : identification . What Iwould it be like to be ...
... give an " Idea " of a thing was to give a perfect image , the most exact picture that could be rendered ( OED ) . Defoe is promising that most reliable of all delights offered by fiction : identification . What Iwould it be like to be ...
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... give fairly reliable guides to the amount of historical fact included . Even Charles Burman's Memoirs of the Life of that Learned Antiquary , Elias Ashmore , Esq ; Drawn up himself by way of Diary , promises to give us a " secret ...
... give fairly reliable guides to the amount of historical fact included . Even Charles Burman's Memoirs of the Life of that Learned Antiquary , Elias Ashmore , Esq ; Drawn up himself by way of Diary , promises to give us a " secret ...
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