The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... remains adequate as a representation of the human being in this timeless situa- tion . Defoe's achievement is even more remarkable when we add to Robinson Crusoe his other fictions . They show how generally applicable were the methods ...
... remains adequate as a representation of the human being in this timeless situa- tion . Defoe's achievement is even more remarkable when we add to Robinson Crusoe his other fictions . They show how generally applicable were the methods ...
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... remains an original . No one else has done what he did , though his influence on later writers has been tremendous . His discovery of the delights of sensibility , the pleasures of the feeling heart , was the discovery of a whole ...
... remains an original . No one else has done what he did , though his influence on later writers has been tremendous . His discovery of the delights of sensibility , the pleasures of the feeling heart , was the discovery of a whole ...
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... remains very readable . It is an attempt to combine the novel of fashion with that of Godwin . An index of its modish success is the fact that it is a result of its hero's taste in clothes that black is still the conventional color of ...
... remains very readable . It is an attempt to combine the novel of fashion with that of Godwin . An index of its modish success is the fact that it is a result of its hero's taste in clothes that black is still the conventional color of ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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