The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... Adam Bede , was published in 1859. She has been described as the first modern English novelist . Put thus baldly , the statement begs too many questions to have much meaning . Yet it is true that her work marks a change in the nature of ...
... Adam Bede , was published in 1859. She has been described as the first modern English novelist . Put thus baldly , the statement begs too many questions to have much meaning . Yet it is true that her work marks a change in the nature of ...
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... Adam Bede's failure comes from a false application of the same convention . Adam too is made habitually to express him- self in the terms of his craft , but it is not Adam's place to be a representative carpenter , and in his mouth his ...
... Adam Bede's failure comes from a false application of the same convention . Adam too is made habitually to express him- self in the terms of his craft , but it is not Adam's place to be a representative carpenter , and in his mouth his ...
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... Adam Bede , the action of which begins in 1799 , was an anecdote told to the author by her Methodist aunt of a visit she had paid to an ignorant girl condemned to death for murdering her child . The Mill on the Floss had no such origin ...
... Adam Bede , the action of which begins in 1799 , was an anecdote told to the author by her Methodist aunt of a visit she had paid to an ignorant girl condemned to death for murdering her child . The Mill on the Floss had no such origin ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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