The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... instance , is set in pre - Saxon Britain , Henry IV in fourteenth - century England , Hamlet in eighth - century Denmark , but these plays are not “ historical ” in our mean- ing . They are not plays about ancient Britain , Denmark in ...
... instance , is set in pre - Saxon Britain , Henry IV in fourteenth - century England , Hamlet in eighth - century Denmark , but these plays are not “ historical ” in our mean- ing . They are not plays about ancient Britain , Denmark in ...
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... instance , or the foppish Captain Whiffle , are not ; they are , as it were , flung at the reader in terms of the most ferocious comedy . However perfunctory his attention to plot , no one ever wrote better narrative than Smollett . The ...
... instance , or the foppish Captain Whiffle , are not ; they are , as it were , flung at the reader in terms of the most ferocious comedy . However perfunctory his attention to plot , no one ever wrote better narrative than Smollett . The ...
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... instance . It is the law of Peacock's being . In all the speeches of his char- acters , however absurd they may be , there is a kind of pas- sion , the passion of the self - absorbed , the crank . For the moment , Peacock has become the ...
... instance . It is the law of Peacock's being . In all the speeches of his char- acters , however absurd they may be , there is a kind of pas- sion , the passion of the self - absorbed , the crank . For the moment , Peacock has become the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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