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... novels of Richardson and Dickens . They have devised such labels as the " Elizabethan Novel , " the " Jacobean Novel , " terms whose only fault is that they imply a relationship between the works so described and novels as we know them ...
... novels of Richardson and Dickens . They have devised such labels as the " Elizabethan Novel , " the " Jacobean Novel , " terms whose only fault is that they imply a relationship between the works so described and novels as we know them ...
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... novel was finally displaced by the one - volume novel , that is , the normal length of a work of fiction was cut by almost two thirds . The change was not sudden , but it was the out- come , in a sense , of a struggle between two ...
... novel was finally displaced by the one - volume novel , that is , the normal length of a work of fiction was cut by almost two thirds . The change was not sudden , but it was the out- come , in a sense , of a struggle between two ...
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... novel . It recapitulates a main tradition in our fiction , that from the eighteenth century of Fielding and Smollett to Dickens . And it can stand up to the comparisons . Indeed , when one thinks ... novel , THE NOVEL FROM 1881 TO 1914 379.
... novel . It recapitulates a main tradition in our fiction , that from the eighteenth century of Fielding and Smollett to Dickens . And it can stand up to the comparisons . Indeed , when one thinks ... novel , THE NOVEL FROM 1881 TO 1914 379.
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