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chivalry and romance

An inordinate interest in chivalry, suggestive of an investment in archaic notions of manners and social hierarchy, constitutes the moral defect of Ferdinando Count Falkland in Godwin's Caleb Williams (1794). Here, in contrast, it seems meant to reveal the inherently poetic imagination of Clerval.


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