The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... passage from her essay on the modern novel will indicate , better than anything else , the nature of Sterne's mind and its perceptions . Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day . The mind receives a myriad impressions ...
... passage from her essay on the modern novel will indicate , better than anything else , the nature of Sterne's mind and its perceptions . Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day . The mind receives a myriad impressions ...
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... passage in which Rigby breaks it to Lucretia that Monmouth has left her . In these , all his talents come into play ... passages so much of their effect , as it does the back- stage political scenes , is his style . That formal epigram ...
... passage in which Rigby breaks it to Lucretia that Monmouth has left her . In these , all his talents come into play ... passages so much of their effect , as it does the back- stage political scenes , is his style . That formal epigram ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. • Passages comparable may be found in Meredith's other novels , in Beauchamp's Career especially . Unless we may call them poetry we have no word adequately to describe them . The passage is ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. • Passages comparable may be found in Meredith's other novels , in Beauchamp's Career especially . Unless we may call them poetry we have no word adequately to describe them . The passage is ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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