The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 75
Page 184
But Dickens ' s way of character creation was not that of the realist novelist ; he
was after another kind of reality . It is often said that his characters are caricatures
, either caricatures of comedy or monstrous puppets of melodrama . He is then ...
But Dickens ' s way of character creation was not that of the realist novelist ; he
was after another kind of reality . It is often said that his characters are caricatures
, either caricatures of comedy or monstrous puppets of melodrama . He is then ...
Page 188
Dickens was the wretched little heavy - eyed mite the nineteenth century
neglected and who told it just what manner of age it was . It made him without
realizing it a violent revolutionary . In novels like Dombey and Son , Bleak House
, Hard ...
Dickens was the wretched little heavy - eyed mite the nineteenth century
neglected and who told it just what manner of age it was . It made him without
realizing it a violent revolutionary . In novels like Dombey and Son , Bleak House
, Hard ...
Page 191
In Dombey , for instance , or Carker in the same novel , or Headstone in Our
Mutual Friend , Dickens is concentrating so exclusively on the obsessional
element in behavior that he is inventing characters that we should today call
psychopaths ...
In Dombey , for instance , or Carker in the same novel , or Headstone in Our
Mutual Friend , Dickens is concentrating so exclusively on the obsessional
element in behavior that he is inventing characters that we should today call
psychopaths ...
What people are saying - Write a review
LibraryThing Review
User Review - stillatim - LibraryThingRemember when literary critics read books and wrote about them? No? Well, I do now. He got a few things wrong - what did these people ever see in H.G. Wells? In Meredith? That they should be put next ... Read full review
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accepted achievement action appear attempt Austen become better called century characters comedy comes comic completely consciousness course criticism death described Dickens early effect Elizabethan England English exist experience expression eyes fact father feel fiction Fielding figure George George Eliot gives greater Hardy heart hero human imagination important influence instance interest James Jane kind Lady later least less literary lives London look matter means mind Miss moral nature never novel novelist perhaps person plot political possible present prose reader reality relation represents respect satire scarcely scene Scott seems seen sense side situation social society stand story successful symbol things tion true turned Victorian whole woman women writing written wrote young
Bibliographic information
| 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 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |