The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... attitude to Blanche Amory , “ I have no doubt there is sexual jealousy on the mother's part , " that he was aware of something of the significance of his relation to his mother . In any case , it meant that he was not master of a large ...
... attitude to Blanche Amory , “ I have no doubt there is sexual jealousy on the mother's part , " that he was aware of something of the significance of his relation to his mother . In any case , it meant that he was not master of a large ...
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... attitude alike , he must have appeared as something like a later Carlyle , but an optimistic Carlyle , saying “ Yea ” to life not as a categorical imperative but out of sheer exuberance of spirit . But today , E. M. Forster's ...
... attitude alike , he must have appeared as something like a later Carlyle , but an optimistic Carlyle , saying “ Yea ” to life not as a categorical imperative but out of sheer exuberance of spirit . But today , E. M. Forster's ...
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... attitude to- wards his characters differs according to their sex ; the men , even when the objects of his satire , are transfigured by his wit , the women , by his poetry . His first novel , The Ordeal of Richard Feverel ( 1859 ) , is ...
... attitude to- wards his characters differs according to their sex ; the men , even when the objects of his satire , are transfigured by his wit , the women , by his poetry . His first novel , The Ordeal of Richard Feverel ( 1859 ) , is ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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