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Article: Monsters, marbles, and miniatures: Mary Shelley's reform aesthetic.(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- June 22, 2004
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I turn without shrinking from cloud-borne angels, from prophets,
sibyls, and heroic warriors, to an old woman bending over her
flower-pot.... "Foh!" says my idealistic friend, "what vulgar
details! What good is there in taking all these pains to give an
exact likeness of old women and clowns? What a low phase of
life!--what clumsy, ugly people!"
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether
handsome, I hope? I am not at all sure that the majority of the
human race have not been ugly, and even among those "lords of
their kind," the British, squat figures, ill-shapen nostrils,
and dingy complexions are not startling ...
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