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Page 416
But with Joyce and Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Wool!, we, as readers, are
as it were at the cutting edge of the characters' minds; we share the continuous
present of their consciousness. There is, obviously, an immense gain in intimacy
...
But with Joyce and Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Wool!, we, as readers, are
as it were at the cutting edge of the characters' minds; we share the continuous
present of their consciousness. There is, obviously, an immense gain in intimacy
...
Page 422
It is not quite accurate to speak of the stream of consciousness in relation to
Virginia Woolf's rendering of character, at any rate as we know it in Dorothy
Richardson's and Joyce's fiction. What she uses is a very deft adaptation of it,
which ...
It is not quite accurate to speak of the stream of consciousness in relation to
Virginia Woolf's rendering of character, at any rate as we know it in Dorothy
Richardson's and Joyce's fiction. What she uses is a very deft adaptation of it,
which ...
Page 449
... 113-115 differences between earlier and later Victorian novelists, 153- 155
Victorian social consciousness contrasted with French and Russian, 154-155
effect of Victorian idea of respectability on the novel, 156- 161 European
influence, ...
... 113-115 differences between earlier and later Victorian novelists, 153- 155
Victorian social consciousness contrasted with French and Russian, 154-155
effect of Victorian idea of respectability on the novel, 156- 161 European
influence, ...
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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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