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But it is not by accident that this seriousness of intent came into our fiction consciously with George Eliot and Meredith . In education and interests both were out of the common run of English novelists . George Eliot was thirty ...
But it is not by accident that this seriousness of intent came into our fiction consciously with George Eliot and Meredith . In education and interests both were out of the common run of English novelists . George Eliot was thirty ...
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It does , and it does so because George Eliot herself is deluded by him . She does not , in other words , recognize that she has created a young man of vulgar pretentiousness . If this was a sign of immaturity on her part , in the novel ...
It does , and it does so because George Eliot herself is deluded by him . She does not , in other words , recognize that she has created a young man of vulgar pretentiousness . If this was a sign of immaturity on her part , in the novel ...
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The wonder is that we do not think George Eliot's claims for her are inordinate . For in Middlemarch George Eliot is investigating human aspirations , in particular the aspirations to serve and to be good , under two aspects ...
The wonder is that we do not think George Eliot's claims for her are inordinate . For in Middlemarch George Eliot is investigating human aspirations , in particular the aspirations to serve and to be good , under two aspects ...
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User Review - stillatim - LibraryThingRemember when literary critics read books and wrote about them? No? Well, I do now. He got a few things wrong - what did these people ever see in H.G. Wells? In Meredith? That they should be put next ... Read full review
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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