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Page xvii
We know, too, what the novelist sets out to do when he writes a novel. Like any
other artist the novelist is a maker. ... Novelists have given many reasons for
writing novels: Richardson believed he did so to inculcate right conduct, Fielding
to ...
We know, too, what the novelist sets out to do when he writes a novel. Like any
other artist the novelist is a maker. ... Novelists have given many reasons for
writing novels: Richardson believed he did so to inculcate right conduct, Fielding
to ...
Page xx
Every novelist, then, gives us in his novels his own personal, idiosyncratic vision
of the world. The vision is acted out by images of men and women. It is, so to
speak, populated; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about a novelist's
...
Every novelist, then, gives us in his novels his own personal, idiosyncratic vision
of the world. The vision is acted out by images of men and women. It is, so to
speak, populated; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about a novelist's
...
Page 306
When he speaks of the novelist's calling as “a sacred office” he means what he
says. He has just been describing the novel as history: “That is the only general
description (which does it justice) that we may give the novel.” And he follows the
...
When he speaks of the novelist's calling as “a sacred office” he means what he
says. He has just been describing the novel as history: “That is the only general
description (which does it justice) that we may give the novel.” And he follows the
...
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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