The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 37
Page 122
... acceptance of them and his unheated accounts of them . The religious fanaticism of Calvinism and its resultant dis- tortion and intensification of character he accepted in the same way . Similarly with the supernatural at the folklore ...
... acceptance of them and his unheated accounts of them . The religious fanaticism of Calvinism and its resultant dis- tortion and intensification of character he accepted in the same way . Similarly with the supernatural at the folklore ...
Page 141
... accepted the idea of pro- gress without much question . The age represented the triumph of protestantism , and perhaps its great achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea of respectability . It was a great achievement , no ...
... accepted the idea of pro- gress without much question . The age represented the triumph of protestantism , and perhaps its great achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea of respectability . It was a great achievement , no ...
Page 321
... acceptance of things as they are , a reluctant conformism . The great discovery of Edwin Clayhanger's life is ' Injustice is a tremendous actuality ! It had to be faced and accepted . ' And life is something for Bennett that exists ...
... acceptance of things as they are , a reluctant conformism . The great discovery of Edwin Clayhanger's life is ' Injustice is a tremendous actuality ! It had to be faced and accepted . ' And life is something for Bennett that exists ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achievement action Adam Bede appear artist attitude beauty become behaviour Bennett Brontë characters Charlotte Brontë comedy comic Conrad consciousness contemporaries criticism D. H. Lawrence described Dickens Disraeli dramatic E. M. Forster eighteenth century Elizabethan Emily Brontë England English novel English novelists exist expression fact father feel fiction Fielding Fielding's figure Forster George Eliot Gissing Hardy hero heroine human humour imagination instance intellectual James James's Jane Austen Jane Eyre Joyce kind Lady later Lawrence literary literature lives London marry Meredith mind Miss Austen modern moral nature never novelist passion perhaps plot poetry Princess Casamassima prose reader reality Richardson romantic satire scarcely scene Scott seems sense sensibility Smollett social society Sons and Lovers story successful symbol Thackeray things Tom Jones tragic Trollope Victorian Virginia Woolf whole woman women words writing written wrote Wuthering Wuthering Heights young