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essays in Walter Bagehot ' s Literary Studies and Leslie Stephen ' s Hours in a
Library ; Henry James ' s prefaces collected in The Art of the Novel , with R . P .
Blackmur ' s introduction ; the relevant essays in James ' s Partial Portraits and ...
essays in Walter Bagehot ' s Literary Studies and Leslie Stephen ' s Hours in a
Library ; Henry James ' s prefaces collected in The Art of the Novel , with R . P .
Blackmur ' s introduction ; the relevant essays in James ' s Partial Portraits and ...
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Faced with so formidable a literary innovator as Richardson , scholars have
naturally sought to estimate his indebtedness to other writers . They have not
found the task easy . Did he owe anything to the novel La Vie de Marianne , by
the ...
Faced with so formidable a literary innovator as Richardson , scholars have
naturally sought to estimate his indebtedness to other writers . They have not
found the task easy . Did he owe anything to the novel La Vie de Marianne , by
the ...
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Yet Tristram Shandy is a novel and nothing else but a novel for all that it has
never been found easy to pigeon - hole , a fact which should put us on our guard
against interpreting the novel as a literary form too narrowly . To summarize the
plot ...
Yet Tristram Shandy is a novel and nothing else but a novel for all that it has
never been found easy to pigeon - hole , a fact which should put us on our guard
against interpreting the novel as a literary form too narrowly . To summarize the
plot ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 67 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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