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... social fabric of life is realized , is the sheet - anchor of the novel . But Lawrence's first interest is not in writing anything so simple as the conventional social novel . What he was after has been excellently put by Eliseo Vivas ...
... social fabric of life is realized , is the sheet - anchor of the novel . But Lawrence's first interest is not in writing anything so simple as the conventional social novel . What he was after has been excellently put by Eliseo Vivas ...
Page 141
... social novelists on both sides of the Atlantic ; but when we set the American and English social novels of the thirties side by side we see differences between them . The American novels , as a whole , are much the more violent and ...
... social novelists on both sides of the Atlantic ; but when we set the American and English social novels of the thirties side by side we see differences between them . The American novels , as a whole , are much the more violent and ...
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... social change mirrored within the confines of a single small family . When Hurry on down appeared it seemed as though John Wain might be the satirist of this period of social change , but though he has written several novels since , he ...
... social change mirrored within the confines of a single small family . When Hurry on down appeared it seemed as though John Wain might be the satirist of this period of social change , but though he has written several novels since , he ...
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