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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 f Way to Pay Old Debts, and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of the ...
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 f Way to Pay Old Debts, and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of the ...
Page 107
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 work of fiction
proper, ...
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 work of fiction
proper, ...
Page 163
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 able to
...
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 able to
...
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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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