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Scholars have tracked down works that may have influenced Bunyan and he may conceivably have read . They do not matter in the least : Bunyan was a ... had no influence on any fiction that came after it , but of that I am not so sure .
Scholars have tracked down works that may have influenced Bunyan and he may conceivably have read . They do not matter in the least : Bunyan was a ... had no influence on any fiction that came after it , but of that I am not so sure .
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The two works have qualities in common , yet the theory that Richardson was influenced by Marivaux is far from generally accepted . The whole question of literary influence , the indebtedness of one writer to others , is much more ...
The two works have qualities in common , yet the theory that Richardson was influenced by Marivaux is far from generally accepted . The whole question of literary influence , the indebtedness of one writer to others , is much more ...
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... 120 , 123-125 Amelia , 59-62 England in the Eighteenth Cen . and caricature , 64-65 tury , 46 influence on Jane Austen , 116 English Rogue , The , 17 Fifth Queen trilogy , The , 394 Entail , The , 140-141 Finnegans Wake , 424 Esther ...
... 120 , 123-125 Amelia , 59-62 England in the Eighteenth Cen . and caricature , 64-65 tury , 46 influence on Jane Austen , 116 English Rogue , The , 17 Fifth Queen trilogy , The , 394 Entail , The , 140-141 Finnegans Wake , 424 Esther ...
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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