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... no relation to literature. In other words, it was not yet an accepted form, much
less an inevitable one even for writers whose interest in character was strongly
developed. The characters of Addison's Spectator papers, Sir Roger de Coverley,
...
... no relation to literature. In other words, it was not yet an accepted form, much
less an inevitable one even for writers whose interest in character was strongly
developed. The characters of Addison's Spectator papers, Sir Roger de Coverley,
...
Page 134
... the West, of man's relation to God and to his fellows, indeed of Russian man in
relation to the whole world, visible and invisible, in which he lived. l Nineteenth-
century Russian fiction, then, has a sweep and range of I 34 THE ENGLISH
NOVEL.
... the West, of man's relation to God and to his fellows, indeed of Russian man in
relation to the whole world, visible and invisible, in which he lived. l Nineteenth-
century Russian fiction, then, has a sweep and range of I 34 THE ENGLISH
NOVEL.
Page 153
When circulation dropped, something was plainly wrong with the authorpublic
relationship and had to be mended. ... Dickens's relation to his age in these
respects, his beliefs, his moral | and political philosophies, have been brilliantly
charted ...
When circulation dropped, something was plainly wrong with the authorpublic
relationship and had to be mended. ... Dickens's relation to his age in these
respects, his beliefs, his moral | and political philosophies, have been brilliantly
charted ...
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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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