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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 assumptions. Their relation to the
reading public was nearer to that of the twentieth-century novelist than to the
early ...
The later novelists, however, were writing in some sense against their age; they
were critical, even hostile, to its dominant assumptions. Their relation to the
reading public was nearer to that of the twentieth-century novelist than to the
early ...
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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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