The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom of Empire |
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Page xi
... novelists like Henry James , Joseph Conrad , and Ford Madox Ford devoted much of their energy to describing and analysing the British master class , especially its men . Implicitly , they were studying the power relations between ...
... novelists like Henry James , Joseph Conrad , and Ford Madox Ford devoted much of their energy to describing and analysing the British master class , especially its men . Implicitly , they were studying the power relations between ...
Page 26
... novelist the price exacted was disastrous . In effect , Kipling wrote only one novel , in the sense of a long narra- tive about personal relations , with fully developed charac- ters and a sizeable moral problem at the centre . This was ...
... novelist the price exacted was disastrous . In effect , Kipling wrote only one novel , in the sense of a long narra- tive about personal relations , with fully developed charac- ters and a sizeable moral problem at the centre . This was ...
Page 192
... novelists wrote about highly organized societies , with a high level of law and order . Naipaul feels himself doomed to be different , and therefore to be ineffectual as a novelist . He complains that " The novel as a form no longer ...
... novelists wrote about highly organized societies , with a high level of law and order . Naipaul feels himself doomed to be different , and therefore to be ineffectual as a novelist . He complains that " The novel as a form no longer ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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