Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
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... Jane Austen . The kind of society that was the natural soil for the growth of the English novel not only did not exist in the United States of a hundred and fifty years ago ; by the definition of the United States itself it could not ...
... Jane Austen . The kind of society that was the natural soil for the growth of the English novel not only did not exist in the United States of a hundred and fifty years ago ; by the definition of the United States itself it could not ...
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... Jane Austen , she knows her limits and never transgresses them . Jane Austen , though more remotely , is an ancestor of Elizabeth Bowen also , whose first book , Encounters , a THE THIRTIES : BRITISH 191.
... Jane Austen , she knows her limits and never transgresses them . Jane Austen , though more remotely , is an ancestor of Elizabeth Bowen also , whose first book , Encounters , a THE THIRTIES : BRITISH 191.
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... Jane Austen " whether their minds are alike or not . ' In fact , at that point Liddell is writing upon I. Compton - Burnett , whose mind he finds in many ways like Jane Austen's . Together , they are Liddell's ideal novelists . Whether ...
... Jane Austen " whether their minds are alike or not . ' In fact , at that point Liddell is writing upon I. Compton - Burnett , whose mind he finds in many ways like Jane Austen's . Together , they are Liddell's ideal novelists . Whether ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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