Let us not desert one another : we are an injured body. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride,... The Twentieth Century - Page 7691897Full view - About this book
| Cathy Lynn Preston - 1995 - 294 pages
...consummate storyteller, breaks off her narrative for nearly one-and-a-half pages to defend her art: Although our productions have afforded more extensive...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance,... | |
| G. J. Barker-Benfield - 1992 - 554 pages
...first ground for defending women novelists, or novelists focusing their work on literate heroines. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body....unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. Presumably Austen herself... | |
| Stephen Bygrave - 1996 - 364 pages
...history, The Spectator and novels) with Fordyce's recommendations, which you read in the previous section: Although our productions have afforded more extensive...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance,... | |
| Jozef IJsewijn - 1996 - 260 pages
...readers of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey may remember what she says in chapter 5: Although (novels) have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance,... | |
| Margaret Anne Doody - 1996 - 640 pages
...Jane Austen's implied question as she reminds us how little official appreciation the Novel has had: Let us leave it to the Reviewers to abuse such effusions...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried, From pride, ignorance,... | |
| Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 pages
...contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding [. . .] Although our productions have afforded more extensive...unaffected pleasure than •> those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance,... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...Papers, ed. John W. Blassingame, first series (1982). Speech, July 5, 1852, Rochester, NY. Fiction 1 Although our productions have afforded more extensive...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried.... "And what are you... | |
| Deidre Lynch - 1998 - 332 pages
...novel, [are] sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust." The advice of Austen's narrator is: "Let us leave it to the Reviewers to abuse such effusions...strains of the trash with which the press now groans" (21). There is no gainsaying the pleasures Austen supplies when her characterization enables us to... | |
| Ronald Paulson - 1998 - 292 pages
...itself.23 The author cites first the "abuse" of "such effusions of fancy" as novels, and then asserts that "our productions have afforded more extensive and...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world." She could be echoing Swift's Grub Street hack's claims for "our" modern... | |
| Jacob Mey - 1999 - 482 pages
...apostrophizing her readers, and indirectly taking a pot-shot at her colleagues, other 'lady novelists': Let us not desert one another — we are an injured...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance,... | |
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