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Page 243
His values may be described as sub-Kingsleyan, that is to say, he is recognizably
of the "Muscular Christian" group of writers to which Tom Hughes, of Tom Brown's
Schooldays, also belonged: curates are namby-pamby unless they make a ...
His values may be described as sub-Kingsleyan, that is to say, he is recognizably
of the "Muscular Christian" group of writers to which Tom Hughes, of Tom Brown's
Schooldays, also belonged: curates are namby-pamby unless they make a ...
Page 263
Maggie's childhood is wonderfully described; because of this we can accept her
devotion to her brother, the coarse-fibered, arrogant Tom. Our doubts begin when
Maggie reaches young womanhood. For it is evident that Maggie's spiritual ...
Maggie's childhood is wonderfully described; because of this we can accept her
devotion to her brother, the coarse-fibered, arrogant Tom. Our doubts begin when
Maggie reaches young womanhood. For it is evident that Maggie's spiritual ...
Page 431
It is in these sentences, so wonderfully modulated and musical, sentences that
seem almost to imitate what is being described, that we feel ourselves in Joyce's
mind. We never identify ourselves with his characters; they exist in their own ...
It is in these sentences, so wonderfully modulated and musical, sentences that
seem almost to imitate what is being described, that we feel ourselves in Joyce's
mind. We never identify ourselves with his characters; they exist in their own ...
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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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