The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... effect on the early nov- els is seen in the typographical layout of Bunyan's Life and Death of Mr. Badman and Richardson's Pamela : Bun- yan sets out his dialogue as though it were the texts of a printed play ; Richardson precedes his ...
... effect on the early nov- els is seen in the typographical layout of Bunyan's Life and Death of Mr. Badman and Richardson's Pamela : Bun- yan sets out his dialogue as though it were the texts of a printed play ; Richardson precedes his ...
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... effect of reality he had devised in that book . Of his other fictions the two most outstanding now are A Journal of the Plague Year , perhaps the most convincing recreation of an historical event ever written , and Moll Flanders . Here ...
... effect of reality he had devised in that book . Of his other fictions the two most outstanding now are A Journal of the Plague Year , perhaps the most convincing recreation of an historical event ever written , and Moll Flanders . Here ...
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... effect of which every- thing is subdued : choice of words , rhythms , balance of clauses , length of sentences , culmination of paragraph . The total effect aimed at , as in James's very different , much more intimate prose , is to ...
... effect of which every- thing is subdued : choice of words , rhythms , balance of clauses , length of sentences , culmination of paragraph . The total effect aimed at , as in James's very different , much more intimate prose , is to ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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