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Page 156
Oliver Twist, like so much in Dickens, in his later work especially, is a fantasy of
good and evil. Graham Greene, in his essay on the novel, has suggested that
Dickens was a Manichee and was much more convinced of the reality of evil than
of ...
Oliver Twist, like so much in Dickens, in his later work especially, is a fantasy of
good and evil. Graham Greene, in his essay on the novel, has suggested that
Dickens was a Manichee and was much more convinced of the reality of evil than
of ...
Page 159
Not much is left of the established order when Dickens has done with it. He is
attacking a whole social system in all its complexity wherever it seems to him to
impede or prevent the flow of generous impulse between man and man, the
exercise ...
Not much is left of the established order when Dickens has done with it. He is
attacking a whole social system in all its complexity wherever it seems to him to
impede or prevent the flow of generous impulse between man and man, the
exercise ...
Page 161
Mrs Gamp, of course, is the shining example in Dickens of what I have called the
poetry of the comic; only a great poet could have invented her; she belongs to the
same order of creation as Falstaff. *-- ~ It has often been noted that there is no ...
Mrs Gamp, of course, is the shining example in Dickens of what I have called the
poetry of the comic; only a great poet could have invented her; she belongs to the
same order of creation as Falstaff. *-- ~ It has often been noted that there is no ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Volume 9 of Dutton Paperback: D Pelican books |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Publisher | Phoenix House, 1954 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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