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But he wrote with the experience of a lifetime at sea and in the West Indies
behind him, and his novels render that experience, with all its robustness, crudity,
and horseplay, in plain terms. Much more interesting now is James Hogg's The ...
But he wrote with the experience of a lifetime at sea and in the West Indies
behind him, and his novels render that experience, with all its robustness, crudity,
and horseplay, in plain terms. Much more interesting now is James Hogg's The ...
Page 419
Like Pater's, her attitude to experience is aesthetic. Transience is the very stuff of
her material. In a novel like Mrs. Dalloway one sees life as in a state of constant
creation, changing endlessly from moment to moment, like a fountain, the ...
Like Pater's, her attitude to experience is aesthetic. Transience is the very stuff of
her material. In a novel like Mrs. Dalloway one sees life as in a state of constant
creation, changing endlessly from moment to moment, like a fountain, the ...
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and recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of
association. Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust
did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. What happens in a Virginia Woolf novel ...
and recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of
association. Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust
did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. What happens in a Virginia Woolf novel ...
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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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