The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... English began to acquire the habit of reading , in the absence of which the writing of novels is scarcely conceivable . The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature lists one hundred and fifty prose tales written in English and ...
... English began to acquire the habit of reading , in the absence of which the writing of novels is scarcely conceivable . The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature lists one hundred and fifty prose tales written in English and ...
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... English versions , Head's The English Rogue ( 1665 ) , is a dreary , ill - written compilation , describing the life of " Meriton Latroon , a witty extravagant , " from his boy- hood , through prison , to his departure for the East ...
... English versions , Head's The English Rogue ( 1665 ) , is a dreary , ill - written compilation , describing the life of " Meriton Latroon , a witty extravagant , " from his boy- hood , through prison , to his departure for the East ...
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... English writers belonged to the same broad move- ment that was shaping the novel anew in Europe , and henceforward , for English novelists younger than they , the usable past of fiction was to include , besides the tradi- tional English ...
... English writers belonged to the same broad move- ment that was shaping the novel anew in Europe , and henceforward , for English novelists younger than they , the usable past of fiction was to include , besides the tradi- tional English ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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