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through character can the novelist's apprehensions of man's fate be uttered at all.
When Mrs. Leavis, in Fiction and the Reading Public, says that "all a novelist
need do is to provide bold outlines, and the reader will cooperate to persuade ...
through character can the novelist's apprehensions of man's fate be uttered at all.
When Mrs. Leavis, in Fiction and the Reading Public, says that "all a novelist
need do is to provide bold outlines, and the reader will cooperate to persuade ...
Page xx
Every novelist, then, gives us in his novels his own personal, idiosyncratic vision
of the world. The vision is acted out by images of men and women. It is, so to
speak, populated; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about a novelist's
...
Every novelist, then, gives us in his novels his own personal, idiosyncratic vision
of the world. The vision is acted out by images of men and women. It is, so to
speak, populated; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about a novelist's
...
Page 306
When he speaks of the novelist's calling as "a sacred office" he means what he
says. He has just been describing the novel as history: "That is the only general
description (which does it justice) that we may give the novel." And he follows the
...
When he speaks of the novelist's calling as "a sacred office" he means what he
says. He has just been describing the novel as history: "That is the only general
description (which does it justice) that we may give the novel." And he follows the
...
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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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