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He was putting for - ' | ward the classical theory of comedy , a view later restated
by Meredith in his famous essay . Yet he was doing his own creations less than
justice . He points out , rightly enough , that the great master in English of the kind
...
He was putting for - ' | ward the classical theory of comedy , a view later restated
by Meredith in his famous essay . Yet he was doing his own creations less than
justice . He points out , rightly enough , that the great master in English of the kind
...
Page 119
Comedy deals with the conflict between illusion and reality ; “ Know thyself ! " is
the imperative of every comic writer . Miss Austen began to write as a child and
wrote all her life . In her first novels , Sense and Sensibility and Northanger
Abbey ...
Comedy deals with the conflict between illusion and reality ; “ Know thyself ! " is
the imperative of every comic writer . Miss Austen began to write as a child and
wrote all her life . In her first novels , Sense and Sensibility and Northanger
Abbey ...
Page 209
The narrator is at once of and outside the society described , detached enough to
know that it is comic and to rejoice in the comedy , but her affection for it such that
no comedy was ever less satirical ; the humor is an expression of love , the ...
The narrator is at once of and outside the society described , detached enough to
know that it is comic and to rejoice in the comedy , but her affection for it such that
no comedy was ever less satirical ; the humor is an expression of love , the ...
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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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