The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... modern literary criticism . " This is true , and with him , more than with any of his English contemporaries even , it is essential remember that the novel was an unself - conscious , even a primitive , form . A great part of his ...
... modern literary criticism . " This is true , and with him , more than with any of his English contemporaries even , it is essential remember that the novel was an unself - conscious , even a primitive , form . A great part of his ...
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... modern perceptiveness to be a modern type . Physically beautiful men - the glory of the race when it was young - are almost an anachronism now ; and we may won- der whether , at some time or other , physically beautiful women may not be ...
... modern perceptiveness to be a modern type . Physically beautiful men - the glory of the race when it was young - are almost an anachronism now ; and we may won- der whether , at some time or other , physically beautiful women may not be ...
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... modern novelist in a sense that Stevenson , Gissing , and Moore were not , and we do so because , for better or for worse , more than any- one else he made what seems to be the specifically modern novel . Describing Flaubert as a man ...
... modern novelist in a sense that Stevenson , Gissing , and Moore were not , and we do so because , for better or for worse , more than any- one else he made what seems to be the specifically modern novel . Describing Flaubert as a man ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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