The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 75
... English novelists as William Golding , Iris Murdoch , Lawrence Durrell , Muriel Spark , David Storey and John Fowles , who are writers of strikingly varied talents , and by no means all en- titled to their current reputations , but who ...
... English novelists as William Golding , Iris Murdoch , Lawrence Durrell , Muriel Spark , David Storey and John Fowles , who are writers of strikingly varied talents , and by no means all en- titled to their current reputations , but who ...
Page 137
... writers of the early twentieth - century Modern Movement . In prac- tice , whatever his overt beliefs , Snow is the most deeply backward- looking and nostalgic of living English novelists , forcing his civil servants and businessmen and ...
... writers of the early twentieth - century Modern Movement . In prac- tice , whatever his overt beliefs , Snow is the most deeply backward- looking and nostalgic of living English novelists , forcing his civil servants and businessmen and ...
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... novels , Hemlock and After , Anglo - Saxon Attitudes and The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot - published between 1952 and 1958 - are very English in their non- chalance about form , in their precise social mimicry , and in the nature of their ...
... novels , Hemlock and After , Anglo - Saxon Attitudes and The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot - published between 1952 and 1958 - are very English in their non- chalance about form , in their precise social mimicry , and in the nature of their ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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