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The notion of the novel as a literary form having something to do with art in the
sense of being consciously made and shaped to an aesthetic end is quite new .
Though there have been few more consummate artists in the novel than Fielding
...
The notion of the novel as a literary form having something to do with art in the
sense of being consciously made and shaped to an aesthetic end is quite new .
Though there have been few more consummate artists in the novel than Fielding
...
Page 119
In her first novels , Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey ( for Pride and
Prejudice , though written in a first version more or less at the same time as those
, had probably been worked over again and again before its publication in 1813 )
...
In her first novels , Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey ( for Pride and
Prejudice , though written in a first version more or less at the same time as those
, had probably been worked over again and again before its publication in 1813 )
...
Page 154
The later novelists , however , were writing in some sense against their age ; they
were critical , even hostile , to its dominant i assumptions . Their relation to the
reading public was nearer to that of the twentieth - century novelist than to the ...
The later novelists , however , were writing in some sense against their age ; they
were critical , even hostile , to its dominant i assumptions . Their relation to the
reading public was nearer to that of the twentieth - century novelist than to the ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| 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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