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London in English Literature

London in English Literature

Boynton, Percy Holmes

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Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 1152394134
ISBN13: 9781152394131
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.33 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...shows that by chance, if not design, it was strikingly faithful. See Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, February 28 (O.S.), 1751. But a great change had taken place by the end of the next half-century. The novel which was the narrative form in vogue illustrates this by the type of character which it chiefly emphasizes. Richardson, stumbling upon success, made his first heroine out of a lady's maid. Fielding, starting to burlesque Amoim, presented as his central figure her brother, Joseph Andrews. Tom Jones, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and Humphrey Clinker were all men of low estate. Goldsmith in a modernized version of the Book of Job chose as his hero a vicar in Wakefield, who had nothing to commend him except his heroism, and gave vent in describing the deserted village of sweet Auburn to a fierce invective against the mistaken ways of a selfish aristocracy.1 Goldsmith moved in a group which was dominated by the son of an up-country shopkeeper, but which included in its truly democratic roll Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Topham Beauclerk, and Bennet Langton on the same footing with himself, the actor Garrick, and the Scotch squire James Boswell. There was no complete change, of course, during these fifty years; but the evident shift in the keynote of the literature suggests what was going 1 For a poetical account of these developments in literature see Part IV of Wordsworth's Grave, by William Watson. on among the people. As it was so strikingly a period in which a new social equation was being worked out, the best way of coming to a solution of it is to establish as nearly as possible the value of some of the chief factors, and thus to arrive at an understanding of the new product--the London of 1775. First, then, for the worldly w...

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