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Every novelist, then, gives us in his novels his own personal, idiosyncratic vision
of the world. The vision is acted out by images off men and women. It is, so to
speak, populated; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about a novelist's
...
Every novelist, then, gives us in his novels his own personal, idiosyncratic vision
of the world. The vision is acted out by images off men and women. It is, so to
speak, populated; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about a novelist's
...
Page 152
As a novelist Disraeli's limitations were many and obvious. His strength lay in his
specialized knowledge; it would be almost true to say that he had to become a
politician before he could become a novelist. But within his limitations he grasped
...
As a novelist Disraeli's limitations were many and obvious. His strength lay in his
specialized knowledge; it would be almost true to say that he had to become a
politician before he could become a novelist. But within his limitations he grasped
...
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his art is concerned, “implies that the novelist is less occupied in looking for the
truth than the historian, and in doing so it deprives him at a stroke of all his
standing-room'. James is making a claim for the novelist not exactly new—in her
own ...
his art is concerned, “implies that the novelist is less occupied in looking for the
truth than the historian, and in doing so it deprives him at a stroke of all his
standing-room'. James is making a claim for the novelist not exactly new—in her
own ...
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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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