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It is the experience of many readers that the most memorable things about a novel are the scenes. Sometimes there are verbal pictures of a place, and sometimes a character is memorably presented as moving through a landscape or townscape. These places or locations are what in this chapter we shall call settings. They can be very important in novels. Novelists have learned to make them significant, so in their turn readers should try to understand the significances that the settings generate.
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© 1995 Richard Gill
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Gill, R. (1995). Setting. In: Mastering English Literature. Palgrave Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13596-7_8
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