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Plot scarcely exists ; the story is merely a string of incidents and intrigues of which
Wilton is the hero , and the incidents described are pure sensationalism , an “
exposure " of the wickedness of Renaissance Italy as the Elizabethan loved to ...
Plot scarcely exists ; the story is merely a string of incidents and intrigues of which
Wilton is the hero , and the incidents described are pure sensationalism , an “
exposure " of the wickedness of Renaissance Italy as the Elizabethan loved to ...
Page 249
That Reade had genuine powers of description , shown , for example , by the
description of the bursting of the dam and the flood in Put Yourself in His Place ,
cannot be denied ; but again it is description of the coarsest theatrical kind . One
is ...
That Reade had genuine powers of description , shown , for example , by the
description of the bursting of the dam and the flood in Put Yourself in His Place ,
cannot be denied ; but again it is description of the coarsest theatrical kind . One
is ...
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... English novelist who could have got away with it . One thing , however , is clear
: the woman so described could not possibly be a fit wife for the single - minded
idealist who “ had a conviction that the want of most men was knowledge of ...
... English novelist who could have got away with it . One thing , however , is clear
: the woman so described could not possibly be a fit wife for the single - minded
idealist who “ had a conviction that the want of most men was knowledge of ...
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Contents
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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