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interest for us here is in Mrs Behn's attempt to engraft verisimilitude on to a
conventional story of romance. Mrs Behn came to prose fiction from the heroic
drama, and in essence the story of Oroonoko is that of heroic drama, the story of
ill-fated ...
interest for us here is in Mrs Behn's attempt to engraft verisimilitude on to a
conventional story of romance. Mrs Behn came to prose fiction from the heroic
drama, and in essence the story of Oroonoko is that of heroic drama, the story of
ill-fated ...
Page 218
In fact, no reader's interest has ever been engaged by the plot of Felix Holt. Holt
himself is a bore, and this against the reader's will, for intrinsically he is an
interesting character. He is never, however, quite allowed to establish himself.
Instead ...
In fact, no reader's interest has ever been engaged by the plot of Felix Holt. Holt
himself is a bore, and this against the reader's will, for intrinsically he is an
interesting character. He is never, however, quite allowed to establish himself.
Instead ...
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But it may be that the real fructifying interest in the novel will begin to operate only
after the scholiasts have finished their work. In any case, it is exceedingly unlikely
that they would ever have begun it but for Ulysses' obvious and immediate ...
But it may be that the real fructifying interest in the novel will begin to operate only
after the scholiasts have finished their work. In any case, it is exceedingly unlikely
that they would ever have begun it but for Ulysses' obvious and immediate ...
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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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