The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... mind , a mind decisive in quality , with firm views on human nature and behavior . We feel that Fielding knows everything there is to know about his characters even though he does not tell us all . They are so real to him that , even ...
... mind , a mind decisive in quality , with firm views on human nature and behavior . We feel that Fielding knows everything there is to know about his characters even though he does not tell us all . They are so real to him that , even ...
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... mind and its perceptions . Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day . The mind receives a myriad impressions - trivial , fan- tastic , evanescent , or engraved with the sharpness of steel . From all sides they come , an ...
... mind and its perceptions . Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day . The mind receives a myriad impressions - trivial , fan- tastic , evanescent , or engraved with the sharpness of steel . From all sides they come , an ...
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... mind's workings ; he was writing in accord with Locke's theory that the association of 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 ...
... mind's workings ; he was writing in accord with Locke's theory that the association of 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 ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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