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Page 127
In his preface to a new edition that appeared in 1837 of four of his novels,
Peacock notes that in some details they may appear to be dated, but adds:
Perfectibilians, deteriorationists, statu-quo-ites, phrenologists, transcendentalists,
political ...
In his preface to a new edition that appeared in 1837 of four of his novels,
Peacock notes that in some details they may appear to be dated, but adds:
Perfectibilians, deteriorationists, statu-quo-ites, phrenologists, transcendentalists,
political ...
Page 147
They are political novels, almost the only true political novels in the language.
Other novelists have attempted ... Finn and The Prime Minister, is the social
background of Parliament; he is indifferent to political theory. Wells, too, essayed
the ...
They are political novels, almost the only true political novels in the language.
Other novelists have attempted ... Finn and The Prime Minister, is the social
background of Parliament; he is indifferent to political theory. Wells, too, essayed
the ...
Page 195
For Trollope was not a political novelist in the sense that Disraeli was or even
Wells, in The New Machiavelli. In Phineas Finn and The Prime Minister he is a
political novelist to the same degree as you could call him a religious novelist in ...
For Trollope was not a political novelist in the sense that Disraeli was or even
Wells, in The New Machiavelli. In Phineas Finn and The Prime Minister he is a
political novelist to the same degree as you could call him a religious novelist in ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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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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