The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 161
... novelists wrote . Perhaps they flattered the illusions of their public , encouraged them in their black - and - white view of morals ; all of them , to a greater or less degree , were inhibited by the assumptions of their public , and ...
... novelists wrote . Perhaps they flattered the illusions of their public , encouraged them in their black - and - white view of morals ; all of them , to a greater or less degree , were inhibited by the assumptions of their public , and ...
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... English novelists save Scott and Dickens . This is due doubtless to the fact that he approached life without theories and pre- conceptions ; he is both the least intellectual and the least romantic of novelists . In nineteenth - century ...
... English novelists save Scott and Dickens . This is due doubtless to the fact that he approached life without theories and pre- conceptions ; he is both the least intellectual and the least romantic of novelists . In nineteenth - century ...
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... English novelists tend to work from the highly individual , the highly idiosyncratic , to the general type ; the French tend to work from the general type to the individual . A French novelist , inventing a miser or a hypocrite , is ...
... English novelists tend to work from the highly individual , the highly idiosyncratic , to the general type ; the French tend to work from the general type to the individual . A French novelist , inventing a miser or a hypocrite , is ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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