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It would shed an extraordinarily revealing light on the gradual alienation of modern literature from the middle classes, to examine the metamorphoses this figure underwent from the ‘Sturm und Drang’ right up to Ibsen and Shaw. For he does not represent simply the stereotyped insurgent against the prevailing social order, who is one of the basic types of the drama of all times, nor is he merely a variant of rebellion against the particular ruler of the moment, which is one of the fundamental dram
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― The Social History of Art Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism
― The Social History of Art Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism

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Die Beobachtung ist kaum noch da, knapp werden die Mutter und Meister leider versagen.
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