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The Irish novelists of the time , who had found their exemplars in Maria Edgeworth and Scott , are much less interesting . Their natural talents were smaller and their interpretation of life crude . They were folklorists rather than ...
The Irish novelists of the time , who had found their exemplars in Maria Edgeworth and Scott , are much less interesting . Their natural talents were smaller and their interpretation of life crude . They were folklorists rather than ...
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Mrs. Gaskell is only less successful in Wives and Daughį ters because she is working on a larger scale . Wives and Daughters is a very perceptive rendering of the class structure of a provincial society as seen from the position of a ...
Mrs. Gaskell is only less successful in Wives and Daughį ters because she is working on a larger scale . Wives and Daughters is a very perceptive rendering of the class structure of a provincial society as seen from the position of a ...
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He too is a sentimental creation , and made the less convincing because , according to the doctor , he is a boy " of a sort unknown in the last generation ... the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live .
He too is a sentimental creation , and made the less convincing because , according to the doctor , he is a boy " of a sort unknown in the last generation ... the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live .
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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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