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him than appears from Aspects of the Novel , and what remains is not merely his historical influence . ... This may appear a paradox : it will seem less so when we remember that it was from the Waverley Novels that Balzac learned the ...
him than appears from Aspects of the Novel , and what remains is not merely his historical influence . ... This may appear a paradox : it will seem less so when we remember that it was from the Waverley Novels that Balzac learned the ...
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Moreover , it was a complex change , and not all its manifestations appear in her work . But 1859 saw the publication not only of Adam Bede but also of another first novel , by a younger writer : George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard ...
Moreover , it was a complex change , and not all its manifestations appear in her work . But 1859 saw the publication not only of Adam Bede but also of another first novel , by a younger writer : George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard ...
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Sometimes , then , poetry in novels will appear in the novelist's visionary intensity , as in Dickens and in a somewhat different way Hardy ; sometimes it will appear in his use of language , which , though not in the conventional form ...
Sometimes , then , poetry in novels will appear in the novelist's visionary intensity , as in Dickens and in a somewhat different way Hardy ; sometimes it will appear in his use of language , which , though not in the conventional form ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
| 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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