... for the soul, is specious because it is only an abstraction. All that is concrete in the entire equation is the literal body itself. Lawrence then elaborates, confounds, and contradicts this point in the ensuing thesis statement: "And that's what you learn if you are a novelist. ... rhetoric performs the doctrine that it pretends to explicitly define. One fine way to shed light on the style adopted by D. H. Lawrence in this essay is to deconstruct the metaphorical hierarchies that he establishes to define the novel and that should be done strictly in terms ... sense of not so much addin...

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... , because she was the first Englishwoman to write and publish a drama, The Tragedy of Mariam (1613). Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary was born in 1585, was the only child of Judge Sir Lawrence Tanfield (Weller), and was provided a strict but extensive education (Krontiris). Cary's life was characterized by her constant struggle between the pressures of conformity and submission and an inner imperative to ... the Scottish peerage (1620), and Lord Deputy of Ireland (1622). She bore him eleven children between 1609 and 1624; and continued to expand her education by reading continually in history, ...

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