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Page 7
... book of some English novel- ists who have been active in the last twenty years , I have become increasingly aware that to write about modern English fiction is also , in some measure , to attempt to define what it means to be English at ...
... book of some English novel- ists who have been active in the last twenty years , I have become increasingly aware that to write about modern English fiction is also , in some measure , to attempt to define what it means to be English at ...
Page 42
... English novel the tone is gentler , and the stress is on the ties of affection and community , radiating outwards from the family to the larger social grouping . If Rastig- nac's farewell characterises the French novel , then a ...
... English novel the tone is gentler , and the stress is on the ties of affection and community , radiating outwards from the family to the larger social grouping . If Rastig- nac's farewell characterises the French novel , then a ...
Page 149
... novels of the past twenty years bear out Paul West's charge that the English are very much in love with their own society , they also hint at attitudes that go beyond simple infatuation with a familiar environment : one can also detect ...
... novels of the past twenty years bear out Paul West's charge that the English are very much in love with their own society , they also hint at attitudes that go beyond simple infatuation with a familiar environment : one can also detect ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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