The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... literature round about the years 1580-90 , a change so radical as to appear a new mutation in literature : the sudden irruption of Eliza- bethan drama . Before 1580 nothing existed in the form of a play in English from which anyone ...
... literature round about the years 1580-90 , a change so radical as to appear a new mutation in literature : the sudden irruption of Eliza- bethan drama . Before 1580 nothing existed in the form of a play in English from which anyone ...
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... literature eighty years later : Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn , the novel that freed American fiction from the domination of specifically English literature . Miss Edgeworth wrote other excellent novels , and in its different way The ...
... literature eighty years later : Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn , the novel that freed American fiction from the domination of specifically English literature . Miss Edgeworth wrote other excellent novels , and in its different way The ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. of literature in which the feminine mind has laboured so fruitfully . Women are delicate and patient observers ; they hold their noses close , as it were , to the texture of life . They feel ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. of literature in which the feminine mind has laboured so fruitfully . Women are delicate and patient observers ; they hold their noses close , as it were , to the texture of life . They feel ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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