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Despite his aristocratic origins, Fielding had experienced at first hand the
appalling economic and social insecurity of an age that still ... And he knew, from
his own experience as well as from observation, what the real canker of the age
was: ...
Despite his aristocratic origins, Fielding had experienced at first hand the
appalling economic and social insecurity of an age that still ... And he knew, from
his own experience as well as from observation, what the real canker of the age
was: ...
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potential experience—or his knowledge; the characters are ordinary enough in
mind, feeling, ambitions, fears, for the reader to be able to identify himself with
them without difficulty. They awake in him the emotion of delighted recognition.
potential experience—or his knowledge; the characters are ordinary enough in
mind, feeling, ambitions, fears, for the reader to be able to identify himself with
them without difficulty. They awake in him the emotion of delighted recognition.
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But it expresses, as the earlier books do not, a complete experience of life,
experience in the widest sense, imaginative and intellectual alike. The view of life
expressed is a sombre one, and one that cannot be wholly accepted: much of
value ...
But it expresses, as the earlier books do not, a complete experience of life,
experience in the widest sense, imaginative and intellectual alike. The view of life
expressed is a sombre one, and one that cannot be wholly accepted: much of
value ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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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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