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Scott is a novelist over whom we shall violently divide . ” Thus E . M . Forster , in
Aspects of the Novel : and if we want the case against Scott we cannot do better
than continue the quotation : . : He is seen to have a trivial mind and a heavy style
...
Scott is a novelist over whom we shall violently divide . ” Thus E . M . Forster , in
Aspects of the Novel : and if we want the case against Scott we cannot do better
than continue the quotation : . : He is seen to have a trivial mind and a heavy style
...
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It is a commonplace of Scott criticism to say that he approached his characters
from the outside , presented , so to say , the public view of them ; which , after all ,
is very much what an historian like Macaulay did with his characters ; but Scott ...
It is a commonplace of Scott criticism to say that he approached his characters
from the outside , presented , so to say , the public view of them ; which , after all ,
is very much what an historian like Macaulay did with his characters ; but Scott ...
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ers we can see what Scott meant to a later generation of European writers , to
Mérimée , for example , with his won . derful Mateo Falcone . Looking back on
Scott ' s novels in memory , at any rate on the Scottish ones , which are his best ,
we ...
ers we can see what Scott meant to a later generation of European writers , to
Mérimée , for example , with his won . derful Mateo Falcone . Looking back on
Scott ' s novels in memory , at any rate on the Scottish ones , which are his best ,
we ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| 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 |
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