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Characters in Smollett have become grotesque objects and , deprived of their human appearances , turned into animals or insects , they are deprived of their humanity . They are things to be kicked about , the sport of any crude ...
Characters in Smollett have become grotesque objects and , deprived of their human appearances , turned into animals or insects , they are deprived of their humanity . They are things to be kicked about , the sport of any crude ...
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Smollett belonged to the glorious company of English hack writers who have turned their hands to anything . Verse , drama , travel , political writing , a treatise on midwifery , translation - he translated Cervantes , Le Sage ...
Smollett belonged to the glorious company of English hack writers who have turned their hands to anything . Verse , drama , travel , political writing , a treatise on midwifery , translation - he translated Cervantes , Le Sage ...
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Balzac , Stendhal , and Flaubert were great Romantics who , instead of turning away from the world in disgust , turned towards it in disgust and fought it with its own weapons . In them realism as an aesthetic creed was born .
Balzac , Stendhal , and Flaubert were great Romantics who , instead of turning away from the world in disgust , turned towards it in disgust and fought it with its own weapons . In them realism as an aesthetic creed was born .
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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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