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When i was rediscovered it flowered marvellously in Elizabethan drama. And the
dominance of the drama from about 1580 to 1640 is is itself one reason why one
could not expect great prose novels durin the Elizabethan and Jacobean ...
When i was rediscovered it flowered marvellously in Elizabethan drama. And the
dominance of the drama from about 1580 to 1640 is is itself one reason why one
could not expect great prose novels durin the Elizabethan and Jacobean ...
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When it was rediscovered it flowered marvelously in Elizabethan drama. _--- And
the dominance of the drama from about 1580 to 1640 is in itself one reason why
one could not expect great prose novels during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ...
When it was rediscovered it flowered marvelously in Elizabethan drama. _--- And
the dominance of the drama from about 1580 to 1640 is in itself one reason why
one could not expect great prose novels during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ...
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1- - *a*4 loo THE ENGLISH NOVEL tury before the rise of Elizabethan drama.
This was Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Great work of prose though it is, it is by no
stretch of imagination a novel. If we take it as such, we might as well accept The
Faërie ...
1- - *a*4 loo THE ENGLISH NOVEL tury before the rise of Elizabethan drama.
This was Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Great work of prose though it is, it is by no
stretch of imagination a novel. If we take it as such, we might as well accept The
Faërie ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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| 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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