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But it is not by accident that this seriousness of intent came into our fiction
consciously with George Eliot and Meredith. In education and interests both were
out of the common run of English novelists. George Eliot was thirty-eight when
she ...
But it is not by accident that this seriousness of intent came into our fiction
consciously with George Eliot and Meredith. In education and interests both were
out of the common run of English novelists. George Eliot was thirty-eight when
she ...
Page 259
But for George Eliot it seems to be a bad mark against her, something in itself
reprehensible. George Eliot, we learn from her biographers, was perhaps
overconscious of what she construed as her own ugliness, and it sometimes
appears that ...
But for George Eliot it seems to be a bad mark against her, something in itself
reprehensible. George Eliot, we learn from her biographers, was perhaps
overconscious of what she construed as her own ugliness, and it sometimes
appears that ...
Page 260
Doubtless George Eliot was using the memories of her childhood, but it seems to
me as certain as such things can be that she is remembering her childhood
through Scott. It has been debated endlessly which is the better in the rendering
of ...
Doubtless George Eliot was using the memories of her childhood, but it seems to
me as certain as such things can be that she is remembering her childhood
through Scott. It has been debated endlessly which is the better in the rendering
of ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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