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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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It is , in other words , exactly the kind of social comedy in which women novelists traditionally excel . It contains in the character of Cynthia Kirkpatrick one of the most striking young women in English fiction .
It is , in other words , exactly the kind of social comedy in which women novelists traditionally excel . It contains in the character of Cynthia Kirkpatrick one of the most striking young women in English fiction .
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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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