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When he comes out with such a magnificently comic phrase as “Since I called
upon you that evening when you were, as I may say, floating your powerful mind
in tea, we feel that the current of satire, of moral indignation, has been inhibited; ...
When he comes out with such a magnificently comic phrase as “Since I called
upon you that evening when you were, as I may say, floating your powerful mind
in tea, we feel that the current of satire, of moral indignation, has been inhibited; ...
Page 202
But the characters of the novel belong to Lever rather than to Thackeray, and
almost all the characters and properties Lever took over from the eighteenth-
century novel are there: the garrison of comic officers, the comic doctors, the
spinster ...
But the characters of the novel belong to Lever rather than to Thackeray, and
almost all the characters and properties Lever took over from the eighteenth-
century novel are there: the garrison of comic officers, the comic doctors, the
spinster ...
Page 302
The characterization is as sketchy as it could be: Cavor, with his cricket cap—a
headgear, if popular literature is any guide, considered tremendously funny in
late Victorian and Edwardian England —is the scientist of the comic papers;
Bedford ...
The characterization is as sketchy as it could be: Cavor, with his cricket cap—a
headgear, if popular literature is any guide, considered tremendously funny in
late Victorian and Edwardian England —is the scientist of the comic papers;
Bedford ...
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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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