The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... young woman , a young woman moving uncritically in the context of mas- culine values . This is one distinction between her and Jane Austen , who , though she does not deny those values , sees them in a wholly feminine context ; and it ...
... young woman , a young woman moving uncritically in the context of mas- culine values . This is one distinction between her and Jane Austen , who , though she does not deny those values , sees them in a wholly feminine context ; and it ...
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... young supporters , four men of great families who were nicknamed , disparag- ingly , " Young England . " Since their movement came to nothing , it now seems pretty silly ; a modern historian has described it as " an ephemeral hotch ...
... young supporters , four men of great families who were nicknamed , disparag- ingly , " Young England . " Since their movement came to nothing , it now seems pretty silly ; a modern historian has described it as " an ephemeral hotch ...
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... young poet whom we may take as Joyce himself as a young man he has already appeared as the central character of Joyce's autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ( 1916 ) ; Penelope is Bloom's wife , Marion ...
... young poet whom we may take as Joyce himself as a young man he has already appeared as the central character of Joyce's autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ( 1916 ) ; Penelope is Bloom's wife , Marion ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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