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... Testament may well suggest to the modern reader the Naturalistic novelists of the later nineteenth century . Yet while we almost automatically read Troilus and Criseyde and the Testament of Cresseid as 4 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
... Testament may well suggest to the modern reader the Naturalistic novelists of the later nineteenth century . Yet while we almost automatically read Troilus and Criseyde and the Testament of Cresseid as 4 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
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... , this was probably an impoverish- ment , but the new length of the novel was itself certainly a powerful aid to those writers , like Stevenson , James , George Moore , Conrad , and Bennett , whose view 310 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
... , this was probably an impoverish- ment , but the new length of the novel was itself certainly a powerful aid to those writers , like Stevenson , James , George Moore , Conrad , and Bennett , whose view 310 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
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... English character kept on breaking into and through the novels he wrote on French models . But Moore was not English but Irish , and though he was educated in England it was at a Roman Catholic school , and 352 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
... English character kept on breaking into and through the novels he wrote on French models . But Moore was not English but Irish , and though he was educated in England it was at a Roman Catholic school , and 352 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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