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Charlotte Brontė is to be judged as romantic writers , whether poets or novelists ,
always must be , by the intensity with which she expresses her response to life
and experience . Her response is total and uninhibited . Her appearance ...
Charlotte Brontė is to be judged as romantic writers , whether poets or novelists ,
always must be , by the intensity with which she expresses her response to life
and experience . Her response is total and uninhibited . Her appearance ...
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Like Pater ' s , her attitude to experience is aesthetic . i Transience is the very stuff
of her material . In a novel like Mrs . Dalloway one sees life as in a state of
constant creation , changing endlessly from moment to moment , like a fountain ,
the ...
Like Pater ' s , her attitude to experience is aesthetic . i Transience is the very stuff
of her material . In a novel like Mrs . Dalloway one sees life as in a state of
constant creation , changing endlessly from moment to moment , like a fountain ,
the ...
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and recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of
association . Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust
did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu . 1 What happens in a Virginia Woolf ...
and recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of
association . Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust
did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu . 1 What happens in a Virginia Woolf ...
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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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