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It is direct, unaffected, the product of a mind \ stored with knowledge of men and
of books — he is always driving a point home with an apt quotation, from the :
classics or from Shakespeare. He is telling a story, the action of which has been ...
It is direct, unaffected, the product of a mind \ stored with knowledge of men and
of books — he is always driving a point home with an apt quotation, from the :
classics or from Shakespeare. He is telling a story, the action of which has been ...
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technique with Virginia Woolf's, and perhaps the quotation of a passage from her
essay on the modern novel will indicate, better than anything else, the nature of
Sterne's mind and its perceptions. Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an
...
technique with Virginia Woolf's, and perhaps the quotation of a passage from her
essay on the modern novel will indicate, better than anything else, the nature of
Sterne's mind and its perceptions. Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an
...
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Sterne had good philosophical and psychological bases for his view of the mind's
workings; he was writing in accord with Locke's theory that the association of
ideas in the mind was an irrational process, but he was also writing as it were a ...
Sterne had good philosophical and psychological bases for his view of the mind's
workings; he was writing in accord with Locke's theory that the association of
ideas in the mind was an irrational process, but he was also writing as it were a ...
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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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