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Page 255
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-eight when
she ...
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-eight when
she ...
Page 264
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 can
only ...
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 can
only ...
Page 269
... and the one nearest to the heroic. 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 aspira__ tions to serve and to
be good ...
... and the one nearest to the heroic. 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 aspira__ tions to serve and to
be good ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 24 |
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 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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