The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... romantic novelist . The close contemporary of the great romantic poets - Wordsworth was five years , Coleridge three years older than she- Miss Austen was untouched by the romantic movement . This does not mean that she was ignorant of ...
... romantic novelist . The close contemporary of the great romantic poets - Wordsworth was five years , Coleridge three years older than she- Miss Austen was untouched by the romantic movement . This does not mean that she was ignorant of ...
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... romantic hero and the romantic heroine . It is the fate of the romantic hero to be colorless , and perhaps Scott's are no more so than Nicholas Nickleby ; the one hero who does emerge as a living character is Ravens- wood , in The Bride ...
... romantic hero and the romantic heroine . It is the fate of the romantic hero to be colorless , and perhaps Scott's are no more so than Nicholas Nickleby ; the one hero who does emerge as a living character is Ravens- wood , in The Bride ...
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... romantic novel , but a novel which if written would certainly ap- pear too romantic , charged with too great an intensity , to be convincing ; four geniuses and four tragic deaths in one novel are three too many of each . The Brontës ...
... romantic novel , but a novel which if written would certainly ap- pear too romantic , charged with too great an intensity , to be convincing ; four geniuses and four tragic deaths in one novel are three too many of each . The Brontës ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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