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Page 196
The first chapter, in other words, establishes the mood of the whole. But among
other things, Bleak House is also about Lady Ded- lock, who hides a love-starved
heart under a mask of aristocratic boredom, and as Robert Liddell has said in A ...
The first chapter, in other words, establishes the mood of the whole. But among
other things, Bleak House is also about Lady Ded- lock, who hides a love-starved
heart under a mask of aristocratic boredom, and as Robert Liddell has said in A ...
Page 418
On what principle is the selection of thoughts, sense impressions, and
associations that must stand for the whole flow of mental activity, to be made? It is
impossible, with Pilgrimage, to speak of structure or form at all. There is selection,
but it is ...
On what principle is the selection of thoughts, sense impressions, and
associations that must stand for the whole flow of mental activity, to be made? It is
impossible, with Pilgrimage, to speak of structure or form at all. There is selection,
but it is ...
Page 424
For my own part, to limit the discussion to Ulysses, after repeated readings I am
still unable to see the novel as a whole. Whether it is a whole or a magnificent
ruin I do not yet know, but it seems important to note that the more arduous one's
...
For my own part, to limit the discussion to Ulysses, after repeated readings I am
still unable to see the novel as a whole. Whether it is a whole or a magnificent
ruin I do not yet know, but it seems important to note that the more arduous one's
...
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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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