The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... contemporaries must differ from the critical ap- proach to writers of the past , if only because we are too near our contemporaries and share too much with them the situation of our own time . The obvious novelists with which to end my ...
... contemporaries must differ from the critical ap- proach to writers of the past , if only because we are too near our contemporaries and share too much with them the situation of our own time . The obvious novelists with which to end my ...
Page 198
... contemporaries in the Autobi- ography . Posterity has a different opinion . In his lifetime , and for three or four decades after , Thackeray divided the empire of Victorian fiction with Dickens , with whom he was paired as inevitably ...
... contemporaries in the Autobi- ography . Posterity has a different opinion . In his lifetime , and for three or four decades after , Thackeray divided the empire of Victorian fiction with Dickens , with whom he was paired as inevitably ...
Page 286
... contemporaries , the English counterpart of the great Euro- pean novelists , Flaubert , Tolstoi , Zola . But his was an older art of storytelling than theirs , and perhaps it is on the word storytelling that the emphasis should fall ...
... contemporaries , the English counterpart of the great Euro- pean novelists , Flaubert , Tolstoi , Zola . But his was an older art of storytelling than theirs , and perhaps it is on the word storytelling that the emphasis should fall ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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