The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 69
Page 64
... human face . Characters in Smollett have become grotesque objects and , deprived of their human ap- pearances , turned into animals or insects , they are deprived of their humanity . They are things to be kicked about , the sport of any ...
... human face . Characters in Smollett have become grotesque objects and , deprived of their human ap- pearances , turned into animals or insects , they are deprived of their humanity . They are things to be kicked about , the sport of any ...
Page 235
... human behaviour in its more abiding aspects . It was not an easy or harmonious marriage , but its tensions were part of its strength . Without the philosophical interpretation of what he saw and felt his work might have approximated in ...
... human behaviour in its more abiding aspects . It was not an easy or harmonious marriage , but its tensions were part of its strength . Without the philosophical interpretation of what he saw and felt his work might have approximated in ...
Page 327
... human nature changed . ' When Vir- ginia Woolf made this pronouncement at Cambridge in 1924 to the undergraduate audience of her lecture Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown , she was not being whimsical : she was violently over - stating a fact in ...
... human nature changed . ' When Vir- ginia Woolf made this pronouncement at Cambridge in 1924 to the undergraduate audience of her lecture Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown , she was not being whimsical : she was violently over - stating a fact in ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achievement action Adam Bede appear artist attitude beauty become behaviour Bennett Brontë century characters Charlotte Brontë comedy comic Conrad consciousness contemporary criticism D. H. Lawrence described Dickens dramatic E. M. Forster eighteenth-century Elizabethan Emily Brontë England English novel English novelists exist expression fact father feel fiction Fielding Fielding's figure Forster George Eliot Gissing Hardy Hardy's hero heroine human humour imagination instance intellectual James James's Jane Austen Jane Eyre Joyce Jude kind Lady later Lawrence literary lives London marry Meredith mind Miss Austen moral nature never novelist passion perhaps plot poetry Princess Casamassima prose reality rendering Richardson romantic satire scarcely scene Scott seems sense sensibility Smollett social society Sons and Lovers story successful symbol Thackeray Thackeray's things Tom Jones tragic Trollope Victorian Virginia Woolf whole woman women words writing written wrote Wuthering Wuthering Heights young