The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... novelist's avowed intentions . Novelists have given many reasons for writing novels : Richardson believed he did so to inculcate right conduct , Fielding to reform the manners of the age , Dickens to expose social evils , Trollope to ...
... novelist's avowed intentions . Novelists have given many reasons for writing novels : Richardson believed he did so to inculcate right conduct , Fielding to reform the manners of the age , Dickens to expose social evils , Trollope to ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. through character can the novelist's apprehensions of man's fate be uttered at all . When Mrs. Leavis , in Fiction and the Reading Public , says that " all a novelist need do is to provide ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. through character can the novelist's apprehensions of man's fate be uttered at all . When Mrs. Leavis , in Fiction and the Reading Public , says that " all a novelist need do is to provide ...
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... novelist , then , gives us in his novels his own per- sonal , idiosyncratic vision of the world . The vision is acted out by images of men and women . It is , so to speak , popu- lated ; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk ...
... novelist , then , gives us in his novels his own per- sonal , idiosyncratic vision of the world . The vision is acted out by images of men and women . It is , so to speak , popu- lated ; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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