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Godwin believed he was presenting in symbolic terms the relation between government and those who incur the enmity of government . But symbols , if they are successful , transcend what we may call their prose translations .
Godwin believed he was presenting in symbolic terms the relation between government and those who incur the enmity of government . But symbols , if they are successful , transcend what we may call their prose translations .
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And she did more than this : she perceived the relation between the local habitation and the people who dwell in it . She invented , in other words , the regional novel , in which the very nature of the novelist's characters is ...
And she did more than this : she perceived the relation between the local habitation and the people who dwell in it . She invented , in other words , the regional novel , in which the very nature of the novelist's characters is ...
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without the sense of an audience in intimate relation with him he was less than himself . His public readings have been deplored , but they indicate the intensity of his craving for what was almost a symbiotic relation with his public .
without the sense of an audience in intimate relation with him he was less than himself . His public readings have been deplored , but they indicate the intensity of his craving for what was almost a symbiotic relation with his public .
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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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