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... novels of Richardson and Dickens . They have devised such labels as the ' Elizabethan Novel ' , the ' Jacobean Novel ' , terms whose only fault is that they imply a relationship between the works so described and novels as we know them ...
... novels of Richardson and Dickens . They have devised such labels as the ' Elizabethan Novel ' , the ' Jacobean Novel ' , terms whose only fault is that they imply a relationship between the works so described and novels as we know them ...
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... novel in England can scarcely be over - estimated . It was immeasurably greater than that of the fiction of the period . To read the great Elizabethan plays as novels is no doubt to find them un- satisfactory as novels ; but as soon as ...
... novel in England can scarcely be over - estimated . It was immeasurably greater than that of the fiction of the period . To read the great Elizabethan plays as novels is no doubt to find them un- satisfactory as novels ; but as soon as ...
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... novel in the nineteenth century had been like a hold - all into which anything could be stuffed . The one - volume novel imposed upon the novelist the necessity for a much more rigor- ous selection of incident and material . It was this ...
... novel in the nineteenth century had been like a hold - all into which anything could be stuffed . The one - volume novel imposed upon the novelist the necessity for a much more rigor- ous selection of incident and material . It was this ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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