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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 ...
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 ...
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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 , popu . lated ; and this is why we may quite legitimately ...
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 , popu . lated ; and this is why we may quite legitimately ...
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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 .
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 .
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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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