The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... its prehistory , but its beginnings in Mar- lowe and the University Wits are simply not explicable in terms of medieval mystery plays and miracle plays or the Senecan tragedies of Sir Thomas Sackville . The change from 3 THE BEGINNINGS.
... its prehistory , but its beginnings in Mar- lowe and the University Wits are simply not explicable in terms of medieval mystery plays and miracle plays or the Senecan tragedies of Sir Thomas Sackville . The change from 3 THE BEGINNINGS.
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... simply a sexual moralist . What Richardson's readers were so ardently responding to was his treatment of the situation of their time , and what that situation was is as plain in his work as in Fielding's . Fielding , it has often been ...
... simply a sexual moralist . What Richardson's readers were so ardently responding to was his treatment of the situation of their time , and what that situation was is as plain in his work as in Fielding's . Fielding , it has often been ...
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... simply whether or not a family on holiday in the Hebrides will be able to row out to the lighthouse . In The Waves ac- tion in any normal sense is dispensed with altogether . Yet even so slight as action is in her novels , it is enough ...
... simply whether or not a family on holiday in the Hebrides will be able to row out to the lighthouse . In The Waves ac- tion in any normal sense is dispensed with altogether . Yet even so slight as action is in her novels , it is enough ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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