The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 47
... comedy , a view later restated by Meredith in his famous essay . Yet he was doing his own creations less than justice . He points out , rightly enough , that the great master in English of the kind of comedy he thought he was writing ...
... comedy , a view later restated by Meredith in his famous essay . Yet he was doing his own creations less than justice . He points out , rightly enough , that the great master in English of the kind of comedy he thought he was writing ...
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... comedy . Comedy deals with the conflict between illusion and reality ; " Know thyself ! " is the imperative of every comic writer . Miss Austen began to write as a child and wrote all her life . In her first novels , Sense and ...
... comedy . Comedy deals with the conflict between illusion and reality ; " Know thyself ! " is the imperative of every comic writer . Miss Austen began to write as a child and wrote all her life . In her first novels , Sense and ...
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... comedy , but her affection for it such that no comedy was ever less satirical ; the hu- mor is an expression of love , the love that would not have its object changed however absurd it may seem to the world outside . Mrs. Gaskell is ...
... comedy , but her affection for it such that no comedy was ever less satirical ; the hu- mor is an expression of love , the love that would not have its object changed however absurd it may seem to the world outside . Mrs. Gaskell is ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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