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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 .
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 .
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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 , of moral indignation ...
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 , of moral indignation ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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