Calcutta Review Volume 9-10. University Of Calcutta
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Author: University Of Calcutta
Number of Pages: 464 pages
Published Date: 08 Feb 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235828355
Download Link: Calcutta Review Volume 9-10
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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.1848 Excerpt: ... represent classes, but in a different manner. Shakespeare's characters are the representation of the interior nature of humanity in which some element has become so predominant as to destroy the health of the mind; whereas Chaucer's are rather representation of classes of manners." Now we demur to the position of Smollett being a mere manner painter. His characters are not like the phantasmagoria sketches of Le Sage--in which a few pages do the business--and we part with the individual for ever. In Smollett's works, they accompany us through a series of adventures. Look, for instance, at Roderick Random. To be sure, it is disfigured greatly, by the gross indelicacy of a coarse age, coarse in morals, as well as in manners. Eoderick Eandom himself is a character--and not merely a sketch of exteriors as in the case of Tom Bowling, the Fox-hunter, and Narcissus' aunt. In Roderick, Strap, and Morgan, we have real characters with interior pith and meaning. Humphrey Clinker too, of itself, would be a triumphant proof, that Smollett's hand had some of the interior, as well as the exterior cunning. Matthew Bramble is drawn with artistical skill, and who that once has become acquainted with Winnifred Jenkins, but retains a delightful recollection of her? Then in regard to a superb scoundrel, from his innermost depth--where is there a completer portrait, than that of Count Fathom. Look at Lismahago too--the representative of a class of dogmatic Scotch disputants, with ' in-knee'd soul'--as Robert Burns would say. In the paper on " miniature outlines"--we have a sketch of Sir Walter Scott--but as the " Chit-Chat," also takes him up--it may be as well now to refer more particularly to that work., It is one great defect of its plan that the A--s and B--s, the H--s, and t...
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