The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... ideas , ideas concerned always with the practical , with man as trader , manufacturer , agriculturalist . This new type of Englishman , empirical , self - reliant , energetic , and with the sense of a direct relation with a God made in ...
... ideas , ideas concerned always with the practical , with man as trader , manufacturer , agriculturalist . This new type of Englishman , empirical , self - reliant , energetic , and with the sense of a direct relation with a God made in ...
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... ideas in the mind was an irrational process , but he was also writing as it were a gloss upon the theory , finding his examples , pointing them out , generalizing on them , making comedy out of them . To use a word once fashionable to ...
... ideas in the mind was an irrational process , but he was also writing as it were a gloss upon the theory , finding his examples , pointing them out , generalizing on them , making comedy out of them . To use a word once fashionable to ...
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... ideas . Had he realized his ambition in this work he would have produced a novel , however different , com- parable ... ideas as his creator ; it meant almost inevi- tably that ideas and digressions would swamp the novel , THE NOVEL FROM ...
... ideas . Had he realized his ambition in this work he would have produced a novel , however different , com- parable ... ideas as his creator ; it meant almost inevi- tably that ideas and digressions would swamp the novel , THE NOVEL FROM ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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