The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page xxi
... sense of being consciously made and shaped to an aesthetic end is quite new . Though there have been few more consummate artists in the novel than Fielding and Jane Austen , for the greater part of its course in England the novel has ...
... sense of being consciously made and shaped to an aesthetic end is quite new . Though there have been few more consummate artists in the novel than Fielding and Jane Austen , for the greater part of its course in England the novel has ...
Page 119
... sense " makes " them , is that it is through them that their author expresses a discriminated view of life , a highly seri- ous criticism of life expressed in terms of comedy . Comedy deals with the conflict between illusion and reality ...
... sense " makes " them , is that it is through them that their author expresses a discriminated view of life , a highly seri- ous criticism of life expressed in terms of comedy . Comedy deals with the conflict between illusion and reality ...
Page 154
... sense against their age ; they were critical , even hostile , to its dominant assumptions . Their relation to the reading public was nearer to that of the twentieth - century novelist than to the early Victorians . The difference may be ...
... sense against their age ; they were critical , even hostile , to its dominant assumptions . Their relation to the reading public was nearer to that of the twentieth - century novelist than to the early Victorians . The difference may be ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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