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Yet the opposition Sir Desmond makes between the aesthetic appeal and the satisfaction of our curiosity about life is surely false ; it need not exist at all ; the two may be fused . This is evident if we consider a poem , Wordsworth's ...
Yet the opposition Sir Desmond makes between the aesthetic appeal and the satisfaction of our curiosity about life is surely false ; it need not exist at all ; the two may be fused . This is evident if we consider a poem , Wordsworth's ...
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Had she allowed them to exist independently of her all the time she would truly have been a great novelist . There is Lady Clonbrony , for instance , an object of contempt to her guests , an object of pity to her son ; she has dedicated ...
Had she allowed them to exist independently of her all the time she would truly have been a great novelist . There is Lady Clonbrony , for instance , an object of contempt to her guests , an object of pity to her son ; she has dedicated ...
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as living beings outside the contexts in which they exist . Peacock keeps them severely ... One at least , Dr. Folliott in Crotchet Castle , we can imagine in any conceivable situation : he is full length and exists in the round .
as living beings outside the contexts in which they exist . Peacock keeps them severely ... One at least , Dr. Folliott in Crotchet Castle , we can imagine in any conceivable situation : he is full length and exists in the round .
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
| 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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