The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... society was not static as Fielding and Smollett believed , and the middle of the century witnessed a crisis of confidence in reason . The obvious evils of society remained and did not grow less , and reason seemed powerless to correct ...
... society was not static as Fielding and Smollett believed , and the middle of the century witnessed a crisis of confidence in reason . The obvious evils of society remained and did not grow less , and reason seemed powerless to correct ...
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... society in which she finds herself . Apart from her writing , she had a full life as the wife of a Unitarian ... society delineated is almost entirely feminine , and the work is a little tri- umph of literary tact . The narrator is at ...
... society in which she finds herself . Apart from her writing , she had a full life as the wife of a Unitarian ... society delineated is almost entirely feminine , and the work is a little tri- umph of literary tact . The narrator is at ...
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... society and men no longer current or readily acceptable except by the deliberate exercise of the historical ... society ; indeed , in great part the courses their lives take are dictated by the nature of the particular society in which ...
... society and men no longer current or readily acceptable except by the deliberate exercise of the historical ... society ; indeed , in great part the courses their lives take are dictated by the nature of the particular society in which ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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