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Page 105
... sentimentality . The meaning is too insistent . Sentimentality only occurs where the meaning is inadequate to the emotions into which it is translated . The emotion here seems in exact keeping with the meaning conveyed . Sitting on his ...
... sentimentality . The meaning is too insistent . Sentimentality only occurs where the meaning is inadequate to the emotions into which it is translated . The emotion here seems in exact keeping with the meaning conveyed . Sitting on his ...
Page 116
... sentimentality . ( Sentimentality does indeed serve to describe the feeling one frequently has with Dickens's children , that he has directed towards the child exaggerated emotions of pathos , deriving from his self - pitying attitude ...
... sentimentality . ( Sentimentality does indeed serve to describe the feeling one frequently has with Dickens's children , that he has directed towards the child exaggerated emotions of pathos , deriving from his self - pitying attitude ...
Page 120
... sentimentality . The children of The Mill on the Floss are as important to the development of the Victorian world- picture of the child as Little Nell , Jo , and David Copperfield . Hers is another case of the weakness becoming an ...
... sentimentality . The children of The Mill on the Floss are as important to the development of the Victorian world- picture of the child as Little Nell , Jo , and David Copperfield . Hers is another case of the weakness becoming an ...
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adult artist awareness Barrie Barrie's beautiful became become Bevis Blake Blake's central character childhood Coleridge consciousness conveyed corruption cult D. H. Lawrence David Copperfield death declared Dickens Dickens's Dombey Dombey and Son dramatized dream early eighteenth century emotional essentially everything experience expression eyes face fact father feeling felt Forrest Reid Freud George Eliot girl Gradgrind happy heart Huckleberry Finn human imagination impulse innocence intense interest James Jane Jane Eyre Jeremy Lady Lawrence lies literary literature lives London looked Maisie Knew Marie Corelli Mark Twain means ment Miss Letty moral mother Nature never nineteenth century nostalgia novel Oliver Twist passion Paul perhaps Peter Pan psychological reality relation romantic child Rousseau seems sense sensibility sentimentality sexual significance social society story suggest symbol theme thing thought tion turned Victorian Virginia Woolf whole wonder Wordsworth young youth