The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 118
... described it as ' an obituary of the Roman Catholic Church in England as it had existed for many centuries . All the rites and most of the opinions described here are already obsolete . ' ) Sword of Honour is a fine blend of the ...
... described it as ' an obituary of the Roman Catholic Church in England as it had existed for many centuries . All the rites and most of the opinions described here are already obsolete . ' ) Sword of Honour is a fine blend of the ...
Page 142
... described by Lionel Trilling as ' a paradigm of the political life ' . In one way it suffers from a similar fault to The Light and the Dark in that though Jago , the favoured candidate for the mastership of Eliot and his party , is ...
... described by Lionel Trilling as ' a paradigm of the political life ' . In one way it suffers from a similar fault to The Light and the Dark in that though Jago , the favoured candidate for the mastership of Eliot and his party , is ...
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... described the original act of colonialist exploitation : the supersession of Neanderthal man seen by Golding as an immensely gentle and attractive creature - by the more ruthless homo sapiens . The whole of humanity is involved in the ...
... described the original act of colonialist exploitation : the supersession of Neanderthal man seen by Golding as an immensely gentle and attractive creature - by the more ruthless homo sapiens . The whole of humanity is involved in the ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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