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But what is interesting now is Congreve's avowed intention in this story " to imitate Dramatick Writing , namely , in the Design , Contexture and Result of the Plot . I have not observed it before in a Novel .
But what is interesting now is Congreve's avowed intention in this story " to imitate Dramatick Writing , namely , in the Design , Contexture and Result of the Plot . I have not observed it before in a Novel .
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... he expresses in the character of Crusoe . The sources of the book have been hunted down by scholars , but his indebtedness to earlier writers cannot take away from Defoe's originality . In writing Crusoe he was not ...
... he expresses in the character of Crusoe . The sources of the book have been hunted down by scholars , but his indebtedness to earlier writers cannot take away from Defoe's originality . In writing Crusoe he was not ...
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Marryat was writing farce , and , like a true farce writer , he piles on situation after ludicrous situation , so that his comic invention seems inexhaustible . But the farce he was writing is of a very rare kind indeed .
Marryat was writing farce , and , like a true farce writer , he piles on situation after ludicrous situation , so that his comic invention seems inexhaustible . But the farce he was writing is of a very rare kind indeed .
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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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