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Page 253
For the James family, then, evil was not an abstract quality but something known,
painfully, at first hand, and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry
James's work, felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence, as in his most
popular ...
For the James family, then, evil was not an abstract quality but something known,
painfully, at first hand, and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry
James's work, felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence, as in his most
popular ...
Page 261
Within that, and not to be separated from it, is James's recognition and
dramatization of the uncomfortable truth the idealistic Left has rarely faced, that
the creation of certain kinds of art and styles of living, generally regarded as good
in ...
Within that, and not to be separated from it, is James's recognition and
dramatization of the uncomfortable truth the idealistic Left has rarely faced, that
the creation of certain kinds of art and styles of living, generally regarded as good
in ...
Page 263
To isolate and exhibit the working of the fine conscience (in both its meanings)
was the motive behind James's technical innovations and all his attempts to
make of the novel a self-contained whole carrying within itself a maximum
significance.
To isolate and exhibit the working of the fine conscience (in both its meanings)
was the motive behind James's technical innovations and all his attempts to
make of the novel a self-contained whole carrying within itself a maximum
significance.
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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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