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Article: LYDIA MELFORD AND THE ROLE OF THE CLASSICAL BODY IN SMOLLETT'S 'HUMPHRY CLINKER.'.

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December 22, 1998
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In Smollett's Humphry Clinker, Jery Melford describes his sister Lydia as "a fine tall girl, of seventeen, with an agreeable person; but remarkably simple, and quite ignorant of the world" (April 2, p. 10) and Charles Dennison (the person in the novel for whom Matthew Bramble reserves his highest regard) calls her "one of the most lovely creatures I have ever beheld" (Matthew, October 11, p. 314). (1) In her physical appearance, Lydia is unlike most of the other characters in the novel, in that she is deformed neither by disease (Bramble and Bullford), by injury (Lishmahago), nor by affectation (Tabitha, MacKilligut). Near the end of the novel, Lydia is protected from the ... 







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