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... than a glimpse of them , they become real for us . Behind every simple statement of Fielding's we feel the force of a deep and varied experience of life , an experience that , however bitter it may have been , has 50 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
... than a glimpse of them , they become real for us . Behind every simple statement of Fielding's we feel the force of a deep and varied experience of life , an experience that , however bitter it may have been , has 50 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
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... from this secret deposit of exquisite moments , she thought , lifting the pad , while Lucy stood by her , trying to explain how Like Pater's , her attitude to experience is aesthetic . Transience is the very stuff of her material .
... from this secret deposit of exquisite moments , she thought , lifting the pad , while Lucy stood by her , trying to explain how Like Pater's , her attitude to experience is aesthetic . Transience is the very stuff of her material .
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and recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of association . Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu . What happens in a Virginia Woolf ...
and recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of association . Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu . What happens in a Virginia Woolf ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 9 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 24 |
THE EARLY VICTORIANS | 255 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback Dutton paperback The English Novel: A Short Critical History, Walter Ernest Allen |
| 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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