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Page 7
Yet the effect of the Elizabethan drama, and of Shakespeare above all, on the
novel in England can scarcely be overestimated. It was immeasurably greater
than that of the fiction of the period. To read the great Elizabethan plays as novels
is ...
Yet the effect of the Elizabethan drama, and of Shakespeare above all, on the
novel in England can scarcely be overestimated. It was immeasurably greater
than that of the fiction of the period. To read the great Elizabethan plays as novels
is ...
Page 29
They show how generally applicable were the methods of producing the effect of
reality he had devised in that book. Of his other fictions the two most outstanding
now are A Journal of the Plague Year, perhaps the most convincing recreation ...
They show how generally applicable were the methods of producing the effect of
reality he had devised in that book. Of his other fictions the two most outstanding
now are A Journal of the Plague Year, perhaps the most convincing recreation ...
Page 306
He is saying, in effect, much what Wyndham Lewis has said in The Writer and the
Absolute: . . . there is in all those arts which parallel nature something like a law
obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity, as it were a physical incapacity to ...
He is saying, in effect, much what Wyndham Lewis has said in The Writer and the
Absolute: . . . there is in all those arts which parallel nature something like a law
obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity, as it were a physical incapacity to ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
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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