The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 32
Page xv
... described and novels as we know them that does not exist . In their eager- ness to supply the novel with a dignified ancestry they have behaved rather like a man who , setting out to write a his- tory of the motorcar , should think it ...
... described and novels as we know them that does not exist . In their eager- ness to supply the novel with a dignified ancestry they have behaved rather like a man who , setting out to write a his- tory of the motorcar , should think it ...
Page 257
... described . Yet , like Scott , she gained from the fact that the world she described was a finished one . Since it was finished , it was static . It could therefore be described com- pletely , and in the solidity and comprehensiveness ...
... described . Yet , like Scott , she gained from the fact that the world she described was a finished one . Since it was finished , it was static . It could therefore be described com- pletely , and in the solidity and comprehensiveness ...
Page 263
... described ; because of this we can accept her devotion to her brother , the coarse - fibered , arrogant Tom . Our doubts begin when Maggie reaches young womanhood . For it is evident that Maggie's spiritual ardors are in fact excessive ...
... described ; because of this we can accept her devotion to her brother , the coarse - fibered , arrogant Tom . Our doubts begin when Maggie reaches young womanhood . For it is evident that Maggie's spiritual ardors are in fact excessive ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
4 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achievement acters action Adam Bede appear artist become behavior Bennett Brontė called century characters Charlotte Brontė Clayhanger comedy comic Conrad consciousness contemporary criticism D. H. Lawrence described Dickens dramatic E. M. Forster eighteenth-century Elizabethan Emily Brontė England English novel English novelists exist expression fact father feel fiction Fielding Fielding's figure Forster George Eliot Gissing Hardy Hardy's hero heroine human humor imagination instance James James's Jane Austen Jane Eyre Joyce Jude kind Lady later Lawrence less literary lives London Meredith mind Miss Austen moral nature never novelist Oroonoko passion perhaps plot poetry Princess Casamassima prose reader reality Richardson romantic satire scarcely scene Scott seems sense Smollett social society Sons and Lovers story successful symbol Thackeray things tion Tom Jones tragic Trollope Victorian Virginia Woolf whole woman women words writing written wrote Wuthering Heights young