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... contemporary novel . The contemporary novel has its own problems , its own excellencies , and , I would say , its own masters , masters for us however different they may appear to our grandchildren . These are to be the subject of a ...
... contemporary novel . The contemporary novel has its own problems , its own excellencies , and , I would say , its own masters , masters for us however different they may appear to our grandchildren . These are to be the subject of a ...
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... contemporary of Fielding and Smollett . It is thoroughly mid - nineteenth century in feeling , and the central weakness of the novel lies in the character of Esmond himself , an early Victorian if ever there was one . 4 Mrs. Gaskell as ...
... contemporary of Fielding and Smollett . It is thoroughly mid - nineteenth century in feeling , and the central weakness of the novel lies in the character of Esmond himself , an early Victorian if ever there was one . 4 Mrs. Gaskell as ...
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... contemporary English standards , so that , except in his best work , his short stories , he seems to be vying with writers of an earlier generation , inevitably , since the eighteenth century lingered on in Ire- land long after the ...
... contemporary English standards , so that , except in his best work , his short stories , he seems to be vying with writers of an earlier generation , inevitably , since the eighteenth century lingered on in Ire- land long after the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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