The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... Miss Austen's heroines I think we can recognize figures comparable and akin to Sophia Western and Amelia , for all they are drawn from a woman's point of view . In her own way , Miss Austen adapted and carried fur- ther Fielding's ...
... Miss Austen's heroines I think we can recognize figures comparable and akin to Sophia Western and Amelia , for all they are drawn from a woman's point of view . In her own way , Miss Austen adapted and carried fur- ther Fielding's ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. Miss Bates , the garrulous , woolly - minded spinster , is an excellent example of Miss Austen's use of the minor character . Miss Bates rambles on , innocent and silly , al- most in stream ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. Miss Bates , the garrulous , woolly - minded spinster , is an excellent example of Miss Austen's use of the minor character . Miss Bates rambles on , innocent and silly , al- most in stream ...
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... Jane Austen does , and he is probably the last English novelist to do so . His relation both to Fielding and Miss Austen can be summarized very much as follows : just as Jane Austen rep- resents a feminization of Fielding , so Trollope ...
... Jane Austen does , and he is probably the last English novelist to do so . His relation both to Fielding and Miss Austen can be summarized very much as follows : just as Jane Austen rep- resents a feminization of Fielding , so Trollope ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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