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The romantic and pastoral , however , is only one part of Elizabethan prose fiction . Something akin to the realistic drama , the splendid plays of Jonson , Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts , and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight ...
The romantic and pastoral , however , is only one part of Elizabethan prose fiction . Something akin to the realistic drama , the splendid plays of Jonson , Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts , and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight ...
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The year 1800 , however , is a date of the first importance in the history of English fiction , indeed of world fiction , for in that year Maria Edgeworth published her short novel Castle Rackrent . Not her first book , it was her first ...
The year 1800 , however , is a date of the first importance in the history of English fiction , indeed of world fiction , for in that year Maria Edgeworth published her short novel Castle Rackrent . Not her first book , it was her first ...
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It is true that some Ainsworth has been read by the young until quite recently , probably because of the respectability historical fiction has always had in the eyes of teachers and parents , who , by stressing the adjective , have been ...
It is true that some Ainsworth has been read by the young until quite recently , probably because of the respectability historical fiction has always had in the eyes of teachers and parents , who , by stressing the adjective , have been ...
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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 |
| 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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