The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 49
... comic invention . According to Fielding , Homer had written a comic epic which , had it not been lost , would have been a model of its kind as his epics are in tragedy . Elizabeth Jenkins , in her admirable study of the novelist ...
... comic invention . According to Fielding , Homer had written a comic epic which , had it not been lost , would have been a model of its kind as his epics are in tragedy . Elizabeth Jenkins , in her admirable study of the novelist ...
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... comic . In Dombey , for instance , or Carker in the same novel , or Headstone in Our Mutual Friend , Dickens is con- centrating so exclusively on the obsessional element in be- havior that he is inventing characters that we should to ...
... comic . In Dombey , for instance , or Carker in the same novel , or Headstone in Our Mutual Friend , Dickens is con- centrating so exclusively on the obsessional element in be- havior that he is inventing characters that we should to ...
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... comic duels prompted by bewildered misunderstandings . The novel bustles with activity , flickers and jumps about like an old film , and it is all handled in a most genial and sprightly way . It is impossible not to admire the ease with ...
... comic duels prompted by bewildered misunderstandings . The novel bustles with activity , flickers and jumps about like an old film , and it is all handled in a most genial and sprightly way . It is impossible not to admire the ease with ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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