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There is, for example, the remarkably accurate scene in which Thornton and the
strike leader Hig gins come together, through Margaret's mediation, in a sort of
wary friendship based on their knowledge of each other as enemies: "Yo've
called ...
There is, for example, the remarkably accurate scene in which Thornton and the
strike leader Hig gins come together, through Margaret's mediation, in a sort of
wary friendship based on their knowledge of each other as enemies: "Yo've
called ...
Page 290
Clym is the first of Hardy's idealists, the first of what have been called his "prig
heroes," a man conscious all the time of what Hardy himself called "the ache of
modernism." In a sense, he represents Hardy's own values: In Clym Yeobright's
face ...
Clym is the first of Hardy's idealists, the first of what have been called his "prig
heroes," a man conscious all the time of what Hardy himself called "the ache of
modernism." In a sense, he represents Hardy's own values: In Clym Yeobright's
face ...
Page 351
It was an attempt to define, on a theoretical basis, what before had been called
Realism. Flaubert himself refused to be called either Realist or Naturalist; he saw
himself as a French classicist, and dismissed Naturalism as an "ineptitude.
It was an attempt to define, on a theoretical basis, what before had been called
Realism. Flaubert himself refused to be called either Realist or Naturalist; he saw
himself as a French classicist, and dismissed Naturalism as an "ineptitude.
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Contents
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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