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The Excellence of Falsehood : Romance, Realism, and Women's Contribution to the Novel /

""The only excellence of falsehood ... is its resemblance to truth, "" proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. He argues that romances are bad art; novels, he implies, are better. This clergyman's remarks -- repeating what literary and moral auth...

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Autor principal: Ross, Deborah, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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