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This in itself is tribute enough to Deloney's force of imagination and expression.
Today, the most widely read work of Elizabethan fiction is Thomas Nash's The
Unfortunate Traveller, or The Life of Jack Wilton, published in 1594. In content, if
not ...
This in itself is tribute enough to Deloney's force of imagination and expression.
Today, the most widely read work of Elizabethan fiction is Thomas Nash's The
Unfortunate Traveller, or The Life of Jack Wilton, published in 1594. In content, if
not ...
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In the shape of the Evangelical Movement, the idea swept over England on a
flood tide; by the 1780's it had received brilliant literary expression in Cowper's
poem The Task. Jane Austen's novels had reinforced it; and it is amusing to
reflect ...
In the shape of the Evangelical Movement, the idea swept over England on a
flood tide; by the 1780's it had received brilliant literary expression in Cowper's
poem The Task. Jane Austen's novels had reinforced it; and it is amusing to
reflect ...
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The colloquial expression takes the place of the formal; the abstract is translated
into the particular. Originally, the last sentence of his account of Ralph Touchett's
ill health had been: "The truth was that he had simply accepted the situation"; ...
The colloquial expression takes the place of the formal; the abstract is translated
into the particular. Originally, the last sentence of his account of Ralph Touchett's
ill health had been: "The truth was that he had simply accepted the situation"; ...
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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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