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Page 53
... social and economic organisation but rather a state of mind ' ; the connections between all three are not so easily ... social vacuum and , as I have stressed , has been im- plicated throughout its existence with social , ideological and ...
... social and economic organisation but rather a state of mind ' ; the connections between all three are not so easily ... social vacuum and , as I have stressed , has been im- plicated throughout its existence with social , ideological and ...
Page 73
... social values that sustained such novels have been undermined in post - war England . Consider , for instance , Lolly Paradise , who makes a living by buying and sell- ing whatever he can find : - What also shocked his uncle and aunt ...
... social values that sustained such novels have been undermined in post - war England . Consider , for instance , Lolly Paradise , who makes a living by buying and sell- ing whatever he can find : - What also shocked his uncle and aunt ...
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... social one . What we are offered instead is a dubious kind of detachment , a front seat at the social show . Both authors probably inherit this transaction from the great example of Proust , whose whole vast social structure exists ...
... social one . What we are offered instead is a dubious kind of detachment , a front seat at the social show . Both authors probably inherit this transaction from the great example of Proust , whose whole vast social structure exists ...
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Preface to the First Edition | 6 |
Preface to the Second Edition | 8 |
The Novel No Longer Novel II | 11 |
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