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In all the speeches of his characters, however absurd they may be, there is a kind
of passion, the passion of the self-absorbed, the crank. For the moment, Peacock
has become the crank in question, Mr. Escot, Mr. Flosky. He has apprehended ...
In all the speeches of his characters, however absurd they may be, there is a kind
of passion, the passion of the self-absorbed, the crank. For the moment, Peacock
has become the crank in question, Mr. Escot, Mr. Flosky. He has apprehended ...
Page 381
Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell, Dickens, were southerners for whom the industrial north
was essentially alien; the revolution that had made it was new and frightening, an
affront and a threat, and its towns were at once centers of a new kind of power ...
Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell, Dickens, were southerners for whom the industrial north
was essentially alien; the revolution that had made it was new and frightening, an
affront and a threat, and its towns were at once centers of a new kind of power ...
Page 382
At his best Bennett does achieve universality of a kind, but it is not Hardy's kind. It
is, if such a thing is possible, a limited universality, true for a certain kind of
community at a certain point in time, a picture of life not only in the Five Towns but
in ...
At his best Bennett does achieve universality of a kind, but it is not Hardy's kind. It
is, if such a thing is possible, a limited universality, true for a certain kind of
community at a certain point in time, a picture of life not only in the Five Towns but
in ...
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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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