In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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Page 27
... Miller's understanding of the difficulties rather than in the experience of individual men who really lived in seventeenth- century Massachusetts . In the second volume , then , Mr. Miller writes a more nearly traditional kind of ...
... Miller's understanding of the difficulties rather than in the experience of individual men who really lived in seventeenth- century Massachusetts . In the second volume , then , Mr. Miller writes a more nearly traditional kind of ...
Page 91
... Miller remarks scrupulously that he has changed the age of Abigail Williams from eleven to seventeen in order to make her eligible for adultery . But this apparently minor change alters the entire historical situation . For Mr. Miller's ...
... Miller remarks scrupulously that he has changed the age of Abigail Williams from eleven to seventeen in order to make her eligible for adultery . But this apparently minor change alters the entire historical situation . For Mr. Miller's ...
Page 92
... Miller fails to do them justice , and this failure not only violates the " essential nature " of the episode but ... Miller's failure to present an intelligent minister who recognizes at once the obvious questions which troubled real ...
... Miller fails to do them justice , and this failure not only violates the " essential nature " of the episode but ... Miller's failure to present an intelligent minister who recognizes at once the obvious questions which troubled real ...
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