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... literature within literature - the former was much more diffusely conveyed . ) At the level of national myth , everyone always knew about both dimensions of scope . The British empire was , like the American frontier , a space of legend ...
... literature within literature - the former was much more diffusely conveyed . ) At the level of national myth , everyone always knew about both dimensions of scope . The British empire was , like the American frontier , a space of legend ...
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... literature ! Here's literature at last ! ' , waving his copy over his head in excite- ment . The professors generally were enthusiastic , and also the professorial types among men of letters men like Edmund Gosse , Andrew Lang , and ...
... literature ! Here's literature at last ! ' , waving his copy over his head in excite- ment . The professors generally were enthusiastic , and also the professorial types among men of letters men like Edmund Gosse , Andrew Lang , and ...
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... literature . What one might call the principle of life in literature - that is , literature's enhance- ment of our expectations , our enjoyments , our depth and force of feeling is cruelly confounded and confused , in writer as well as ...
... literature . What one might call the principle of life in literature - that is , literature's enhance- ment of our expectations , our enjoyments , our depth and force of feeling is cruelly confounded and confused , in writer as well as ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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