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... novelist , then , gives us in his novels his own personal , idiosyncratic vision of the world . The vision is acted out by images of men and women . It is , so to speak , populated ; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about ...
... novelist , then , gives us in his novels his own personal , idiosyncratic vision of the world . The vision is acted out by images of men and women . It is , so to speak , populated ; and this is why we may quite legitimately talk about ...
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... novelist . But within his limitations he grasped and expressed the essential situation of his times with a boldness ... novelist of a Shakespearean order is a pretty shaky one ; and to call Dickens a great popular entertainer rather than ...
... novelist . But within his limitations he grasped and expressed the essential situation of his times with a boldness ... novelist of a Shakespearean order is a pretty shaky one ; and to call Dickens a great popular entertainer rather than ...
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... novelist not exactly new – own way George Eliot would have subscribed to it - but making it with a calmness of ... novelist sees himself as an artist , a creator of an imitation world made in some sense with regard to objective truth ...
... novelist not exactly new – own way George Eliot would have subscribed to it - but making it with a calmness of ... novelist sees himself as an artist , a creator of an imitation world made in some sense with regard to objective truth ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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