The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... James family , then , evil was not an abstract qual- ity but something known , painfully , at first hand , and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry James's work , felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence , as in his ...
... James family , then , evil was not an abstract qual- ity but something known , painfully , at first hand , and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry James's work , felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence , as in his ...
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... James makes his sentences dense with as much meaning as he can get into them , but the meaning exists on several planes at once ; it is a fusion of meanings , so that to attempt to unravel a James sentence is akin to analyzing a complex ...
... James makes his sentences dense with as much meaning as he can get into them , but the meaning exists on several planes at once ; it is a fusion of meanings , so that to attempt to unravel a James sentence is akin to analyzing a complex ...
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... James : The Major Phase , 332-333 Henryson , Robert , 4 Hermsprong , 105-106 Herrick , Robert , 73 Hewitt , Douglas , 363 Highland Widow , The , 129 Hilda Lessways , 381-382 History of Jacob Stahl , The , 412 History of Mr. Polly , The ...
... James : The Major Phase , 332-333 Henryson , Robert , 4 Hermsprong , 105-106 Herrick , Robert , 73 Hewitt , Douglas , 363 Highland Widow , The , 129 Hilda Lessways , 381-382 History of Jacob Stahl , The , 412 History of Mr. Polly , The ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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