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3 "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.
3 "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 does
...
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 does
...
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ers we can see what Scott meant to a later generation of European writers, to
Merime"e, for example, with his wonderful Mateo Falcone. Looking back on
Scott's novels in memory, at any rate on the Scottish ones, which are his best, we
tend to ...
ers we can see what Scott meant to a later generation of European writers, to
Merime"e, for example, with his wonderful Mateo Falcone. Looking back on
Scott's novels in memory, at any rate on the Scottish ones, which are his best, we
tend to ...
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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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