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The critics who have shaped or influenced both my general view of the novel as a
literary form and my opinions on individual novelists will, I imagine, be obvious
enough to those familiar with the field. Wherever possible, I have given specific ...
The critics who have shaped or influenced both my general view of the novel as a
literary form and my opinions on individual novelists will, I imagine, be obvious
enough to those familiar with the field. Wherever possible, I have given specific ...
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connected ; both are manifestations of a radical change , which first came to
consciousness in England in the seventies and eighties of the last century , in
their attitude towards the novel first of novelists themselves , then of critics , and in
turn ...
connected ; both are manifestations of a radical change , which first came to
consciousness in England in the seventies and eighties of the last century , in
their attitude towards the novel first of novelists themselves , then of critics , and in
turn ...
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Yet , since fiction was often the only place in which dangerous thoughts could be
discussed , not always with perfect safety to the novelist , the novel became the
main vehicle of criticism , of society , of morals , of the Russian attitude to the
West ...
Yet , since fiction was often the only place in which dangerous thoughts could be
discussed , not always with perfect safety to the novelist , the novel became the
main vehicle of criticism , of society , of morals , of the Russian attitude to the
West ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| 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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