The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brillant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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The very fact that Shakespeare wrote in English made the novel as it was written
in nineteenth-century France, for example, impossible in England except as an
occasional sport. Since Shakespeare has always been the ultimate standard of ...
The very fact that Shakespeare wrote in English made the novel as it was written
in nineteenth-century France, for example, impossible in England except as an
occasional sport. Since Shakespeare has always been the ultimate standard of ...
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Had Congreve written his squib when he was older he would undoubtedly have
set it in London, with a much greater gain in reality. But what is interesting now is
Congreve's avowed intention in this story "to imitate Dramatick Writing, namely, ...
Had Congreve written his squib when he was older he would undoubtedly have
set it in London, with a much greater gain in reality. But what is interesting now is
Congreve's avowed intention in this story "to imitate Dramatick Writing, namely, ...
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The sources of the book have been hunted down by scholars, but his
indebtedness to earlier writers cannot take away ... of course, consciously writing
a novel; he was writing a spoof autobiography which was to be taken by his
readers as fact.
The sources of the book have been hunted down by scholars, but his
indebtedness to earlier writers cannot take away ... of course, consciously writing
a novel; he was writing a spoof autobiography which was to be taken by his
readers as fact.
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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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