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He had of course no thought of writing a novel ; indeed , we read it as a novel today simply because of the amount of felt and observed reality that it contains . It was written as a religious allegory , as a tract or a sermon .
He had of course no thought of writing a novel ; indeed , we read it as a novel today simply because of the amount of felt and observed reality that it contains . It was written as a religious allegory , as a tract or a sermon .
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All the letters are written while the hearts of the writers must be supposed to be wholly engaged in their subjects ( the events at the time dubious ) : so that they abound not only with critical situations , but with what may be called ...
All the letters are written while the hearts of the writers must be supposed to be wholly engaged in their subjects ( the events at the time dubious ) : so that they abound not only with critical situations , but with what may be called ...
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Roderick Hudson , The Portrait of a Lady , The Bostonians , The Princess Casamassima are traditional novels which only James could have written ; from What Maisie Knew onwards his fiction is all his own ; the change is akin to D. H. ...
Roderick Hudson , The Portrait of a Lady , The Bostonians , The Princess Casamassima are traditional novels which only James could have written ; from What Maisie Knew onwards his fiction is all his own ; the change is akin to D. H. ...
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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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