... 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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