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Faced with so formidable a literary innovator as Richardson, scholars have
naturally sought to estimate his indebtedness to other writers. They have not
found the task easy. Did he owe anything to the novel La Pie de Marianne, by the
French ...
Faced with so formidable a literary innovator as Richardson, scholars have
naturally sought to estimate his indebtedness to other writers. They have not
found the task easy. Did he owe anything to the novel La Pie de Marianne, by the
French ...
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Yet Tristram Shandy is a novel and nothing else but a novel for all that it has
never been found easy to pigeon-hole; a fact which should put us on our guard
against interpreting the novel as a literary form too narrowly. To summarize the
plot is ...
Yet Tristram Shandy is a novel and nothing else but a novel for all that it has
never been found easy to pigeon-hole; a fact which should put us on our guard
against interpreting the novel as a literary form too narrowly. To summarize the
plot is ...
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Turgenev is said to have stated that he was “an unconscious disciple of Miss
Edgeworth in ... setting out-on-his literary career'. - The originality of Maria
Edgeworth's contribution to the novel is apparent as soon as one begins to read
Castle ...
Turgenev is said to have stated that he was “an unconscious disciple of Miss
Edgeworth in ... setting out-on-his literary career'. - The originality of Maria
Edgeworth's contribution to the novel is apparent as soon as one begins to read
Castle ...
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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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