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... 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 .
It was never , either aesthetically or morally , a perfect form and its faults and
failures ...
... 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 .
It was never , either aesthetically or morally , a perfect form and its faults and
failures ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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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