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1 THE BEGINNINGS THE COMPARATIVELY sudden appearance at the turn of
the seventeenth century of the novel as we know it was a manifestation of a
marked change in the direction of men's interest . Comparable and related
changes ...
1 THE BEGINNINGS THE COMPARATIVELY sudden appearance at the turn of
the seventeenth century of the novel as we know it was a manifestation of a
marked change in the direction of men's interest . Comparable and related
changes ...
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Perhaps they might have bridged the gulf between the medieval metrical
romance and something like the novel we know today, but Chaucer and
Henryson were an end, not a beginning. Chaucer's death in 14oo coincided with
a change in the ...
Perhaps they might have bridged the gulf between the medieval metrical
romance and something like the novel we know today, but Chaucer and
Henryson were an end, not a beginning. Chaucer's death in 14oo coincided with
a change in the ...
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The scientific and the magical still existed side by side, and despite the
absurdities of the romances and the heroic drama, one can see, right at the
beginning of the century, examples not quite of scientific interest in character but
at least of ...
The scientific and the magical still existed side by side, and despite the
absurdities of the romances and the heroic drama, one can see, right at the
beginning of the century, examples not quite of scientific interest in character but
at least of ...
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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