... Drury Lane bearing the plague cross, he was "was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw. However, the elite were disturbed that smoking had become too common a practice, perhaps in both senses of the word. They, in turn, sought to distinguish themselves by indulging in a new way of tobacco intake: snuff. This new form of intake, which ... taking, although limited to the elite, helped a great deal in the civilizing process of English society. Where once public urination and defecation was commonplace, London elite were now observing obligatory etiquette. London experienced ...

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... landscape itself " a man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars;" (GE 4) A common feature of Dickens" work was his "larger-than-life", symbolic characters and some of these are also are used to allude to the various attitudes and issues at work in ... provided of the protocols required before arranging a social gathering of the Milvains and the Yules inform the readership that rural life is not simplistic, but subject to the same social etiquette found in larger cities. Gissing, like Hardy, use...

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