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What matters is Fielding's endless fertility of comic invention. According to
Fielding, Homer had written a comic epic which, had it not been lost, would have
been a model of its kind as his epics are in tragedy. Elizabeth Jenkins, in her
admirable ...
What matters is Fielding's endless fertility of comic invention. According to
Fielding, Homer had written a comic epic which, had it not been lost, would have
been a model of its kind as his epics are in tragedy. Elizabeth Jenkins, in her
admirable ...
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Silas Wegg is an instance of this process. When he comes out with such a
magnificently comic phrase as "Since I called upon you that evening when you
were, as I may say, floating your powerful mind in tea," we feel that the current of
satire, ...
Silas Wegg is an instance of this process. When he comes out with such a
magnificently comic phrase as "Since I called upon you that evening when you
were, as I may say, floating your powerful mind in tea," we feel that the current of
satire, ...
Page 424
The first thing that needs stressing, it seems to me, is that, whatever else he is not
, Joyce is a very great comic writer, a comic writer of the quality of Rabelais and
Sterne. In my view this is the most useful point of departure from which to ...
The first thing that needs stressing, it seems to me, is that, whatever else he is not
, Joyce is a very great comic writer, a comic writer of the quality of Rabelais and
Sterne. In my view this is the most useful point of departure from which to ...
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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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