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... substantially true, as may be seen if we set beside it a statement from a modern
critic, Lionel Trilling, in The Liberal Imagination: For our time the most effective
agent of the moral imagination has been the novel of the last two hundred years.
... substantially true, as may be seen if we set beside it a statement from a modern
critic, Lionel Trilling, in The Liberal Imagination: For our time the most effective
agent of the moral imagination has been the novel of the last two hundred years.
Page 174
Grandiose and improbable as his imagination was, it was always applied to the
world outside it, and it was always moved by certain abstract ideas, the ideas of
greatness and nobility, kingship, ancient families, and youth. The young men who
...
Grandiose and improbable as his imagination was, it was always applied to the
world outside it, and it was always moved by certain abstract ideas, the ideas of
greatness and nobility, kingship, ancient families, and youth. The young men who
...
Page 197
So far as we can label him at all, he was a fantasist, and he forces us to accept
the world he creates by the sheer compelling power of the intensity of his
imagination. It was an hallucinatory imagination, and so long as he remains
within the ...
So far as we can label him at all, he was a fantasist, and he forces us to accept
the world he creates by the sheer compelling power of the intensity of his
imagination. It was an hallucinatory imagination, and so long as he remains
within the ...
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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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