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Page 29
... writing were a twin - birth with that of the novel . In France and Spain romances of real life had already appeared in the form of works written in reaction against the high - flown artificiality and Arcadianism of writers like D'Urfé ...
... writing were a twin - birth with that of the novel . In France and Spain romances of real life had already appeared in the form of works written in reaction against the high - flown artificiality and Arcadianism of writers like D'Urfé ...
Page 174
... written about and that of the time of writing . With a skill and literary sensibility that dazzle , Thackeray modulated his own prose to that of the early eighteenth century , and he succeeded in producing something that is not pastiche ...
... written about and that of the time of writing . With a skill and literary sensibility that dazzle , Thackeray modulated his own prose to that of the early eighteenth century , and he succeeded in producing something that is not pastiche ...
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... writing in reaction against the novel as understood by the Edwardians . This is true neither as -fact nor in implication : Forster was the strict contemporary of the Edwardians , and the bulk of his fiction was written before Mrs Woolf ...
... writing in reaction against the novel as understood by the Edwardians . This is true neither as -fact nor in implication : Forster was the strict contemporary of the Edwardians , and the bulk of his fiction was written before Mrs Woolf ...
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