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Page 56
... English and American literature . Courteously but firmly he complained that many English novels were parochial and inward - looking and dealt with questions that were trivial or unin- telligible to the outsider . American fiction , on ...
... English and American literature . Courteously but firmly he complained that many English novels were parochial and inward - looking and dealt with questions that were trivial or unin- telligible to the outsider . American fiction , on ...
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... English for their own good , we have , I think , a remarkably clear example of the moralised consciousness that he analyses so effectively . I think it is possible , even probable , that the English - who are by no means incapable of ...
... English for their own good , we have , I think , a remarkably clear example of the moralised consciousness that he analyses so effectively . I think it is possible , even probable , that the English - who are by no means incapable of ...
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... English public life . Compared with other nations , the English are a remarkably innocent people , who scarcely know what violence , crime or civil disorder is : many American cities have as high an annual murder rate as the whole of ...
... English public life . Compared with other nations , the English are a remarkably innocent people , who scarcely know what violence , crime or civil disorder is : many American cities have as high an annual murder rate as the whole of ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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