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verse morals were beside the point ; between the forces of nature , including therein the forces of his own nature , and man's aspirations there could be no reconciliation ; they were eternally opposed , and from the human view the ...
verse morals were beside the point ; between the forces of nature , including therein the forces of his own nature , and man's aspirations there could be no reconciliation ; they were eternally opposed , and from the human view the ...
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In no other does the setting of the natural world so dominate the characters . Perhaps the dichotomy between the human being and the nature in which he lives is too acute in this novel ; in the tragic works that follow , The Mayor of ...
In no other does the setting of the natural world so dominate the characters . Perhaps the dichotomy between the human being and the nature in which he lives is too acute in this novel ; in the tragic works that follow , The Mayor of ...
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He is saying , in effect , much what Wyndham Lewis has said in The Writer and the Absolute : there is in all those arts which parallel nature something like a law obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity , as it were a physical ...
He is saying , in effect , much what Wyndham Lewis has said in The Writer and the Absolute : there is in all those arts which parallel nature something like a law obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity , as it were a physical ...
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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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