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... imaginative writing in our language , the novel was bound to approximate to the mixed form he followed . Ways of ... imagination a novel . If we take it as such , we might as well accept The Faerie Queen as a novel too . It is the ...
... imaginative writing in our language , the novel was bound to approximate to the mixed form he followed . Ways of ... imagination a novel . If we take it as such , we might as well accept The Faerie Queen as a novel too . It is the ...
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... imagination is seen at its most grandiose not in Coningsby but in Tancred , in the scene in which the young Emir Fakredeen Shehaab expounds his plan for the Queen of England to transfer the seat of her empire from London to Delhi . As ...
... imagination is seen at its most grandiose not in Coningsby but in Tancred , in the scene in which the young Emir Fakredeen Shehaab expounds his plan for the Queen of England to transfer the seat of her empire from London to Delhi . As ...
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... imagination as no naturalistically conceived personages could do : they haunt because they are not wholly ration ... imagination . It was an hallucinatory imagination , and so long as he remains within the comic and satiric or the ...
... imagination as no naturalistically conceived personages could do : they haunt because they are not wholly ration ... imagination . It was an hallucinatory imagination , and so long as he remains within the comic and satiric or the ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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