Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27402
- Title
- Heart-picking in A Simple Story
- Author/Creator
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Osland, Dianne
- Description
- The novel, A Simple Story consequently struggles with some intractable problems, though the problems are more generic than real since it is in the very intractability of her characters that the strength of Elizabeth Inchbald's narrative lies. By any standard other than the novelistic, nothing is surprising or even unusual about the way the story unfolds, except, perhaps, for the unsettling candor with which Inchbald recounts this simple, unvarnished tale of decent, intelligent people who do some stupid things for no good reason, who love unwisely, and who do not always learn from their mistakes.
- Relation
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction Vol. 16, Issue 1, p. 79-101
- Relation
- http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~ecf/v16.html
- Date
- 2003
- Publisher
- McMaster University / University of Toronto Press
- Keyword(s)
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18th century fiction;
Elizabeth Inchbald;
A Simple Story;
British literature;
British authors
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27402
- Identifier
- ISSN:0840-6286
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