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Yet Jane Austen, too, was a revolutionary, however unconsciously, and few of the
changes in critical opinion of this century would surprise the critic of a hundred
years ago more than the comparatively sudden rise in her reputation and the ...
Yet Jane Austen, too, was a revolutionary, however unconsciously, and few of the
changes in critical opinion of this century would surprise the critic of a hundred
years ago more than the comparatively sudden rise in her reputation and the ...
Page 134
It is not that the Victorians were uncritical of their country and age, but their
criticisms are much less radical than those of, say, Balzac, Stendhal, Turgenev,
Flaubert, and Dostoevsky, and of a different kind. For a good reason: the
condition of ...
It is not that the Victorians were uncritical of their country and age, but their
criticisms are much less radical than those of, say, Balzac, Stendhal, Turgenev,
Flaubert, and Dostoevsky, and of a different kind. For a good reason: the
condition of ...
Page 349
... her criticism of life through comedy, Ioy; Pride and Prejudice, Ioy, IoS,
Mansfield Park, 108–10; Emma, 11o-11; Charlotte's Brontė's criticism, 111– 1.12;
influence, 112 Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, The, 273–4 Autobiography (
Trollope), ...
... her criticism of life through comedy, Ioy; Pride and Prejudice, Ioy, IoS,
Mansfield Park, 108–10; Emma, 11o-11; Charlotte's Brontė's criticism, 111– 1.12;
influence, 112 Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, The, 273–4 Autobiography (
Trollope), ...
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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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