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... as may be seen if we set beside it a statement from a modern critic , Lionel Trilling , in The Liberal Imagination : a For our time the most effective agent of the moral imagination has been the novel of the last two hundred years .
... as may be seen if we set beside it a statement from a modern critic , Lionel Trilling , in The Liberal Imagination : a For our time the most effective agent of the moral imagination has been the novel of the last two hundred years .
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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 .
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 .
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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 ...
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 ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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