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... novel , who noted that novelists had commonly been great readers of novels . No doubt it would be surprising if this were not so , and certainly novelists have not changed in this respect since Raleigh wrote his book sixty years ago ...
... novel , who noted that novelists had commonly been great readers of novels . No doubt it would be surprising if this were not so , and certainly novelists have not changed in this respect since Raleigh wrote his book sixty years ago ...
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... novels of Richardson and Dickens . They have devised such labels as the ' Elizabethan Novel ' , the ' Jacobean Novel ' , terms whose only fault is that they imply a relationship between the works so described and novels as we know them ...
... novels of Richardson and Dickens . They have devised such labels as the ' Elizabethan Novel ' , the ' Jacobean Novel ' , terms whose only fault is that they imply a relationship between the works so described and novels as we know them ...
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... novel in the nineteenth century had been like a hold - all into which anything could be stuffed . The one - volume novel imposed upon the novelist the necessity for a much more rigor- ous selection of incident and material . It was this ...
... novel in the nineteenth century had been like a hold - all into which anything could be stuffed . The one - volume novel imposed upon the novelist the necessity for a much more rigor- ous selection of incident and material . It was this ...
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