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Page 63
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 horseplay ,
the ...
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 horseplay ,
the ...
Page 68
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 , and Voltaire —
and a ...
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 , and Voltaire —
and a ...
Page 155
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 . In Russia things
...
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 . In Russia things
...
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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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