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Page 199
... matter ; when the subject - matter is dull Trollope is dull . He has no sense of form : he was content to produce a story that would , somehow , fill three volumes of a novel , a novel , moreover , that was to appear as a magazine ...
... matter ; when the subject - matter is dull Trollope is dull . He has no sense of form : he was content to produce a story that would , somehow , fill three volumes of a novel , a novel , moreover , that was to appear as a magazine ...
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... matter of man in relation to God , is plainly using the novel with a depth of seriousness quite beyond anything the early Victorians proposed for it . The seriousness of these European writers was both moral and aesthetic ; it is not ...
... matter of man in relation to God , is plainly using the novel with a depth of seriousness quite beyond anything the early Victorians proposed for it . The seriousness of these European writers was both moral and aesthetic ; it is not ...
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... matter ' , he said , ' is that a novel is not a transcript of life , to be judged by its exactitude ; but a simplification of some side or point of life , to stand or fall by its significant simplicity . ' With this James had no ...
... matter ' , he said , ' is that a novel is not a transcript of life , to be judged by its exactitude ; but a simplification of some side or point of life , to stand or fall by its significant simplicity . ' With this James had no ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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