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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Symbolism of this kind cannot be paraphrased; it can only be experienced. It is
probably the rarest kind of artistic creation, and it is everywhere in Lawrence.
Lawrence's use of the symbol explains also his failures, as for instance The
Plumed ...
Symbolism of this kind cannot be paraphrased; it can only be experienced. It is
probably the rarest kind of artistic creation, and it is everywhere in Lawrence.
Lawrence's use of the symbol explains also his failures, as for instance The
Plumed ...
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Contents
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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