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... sense of being consciously made and shaped to an aesthetic end is quite new . Though there have been few more con- summate artists in the novel than Fielding and Jane Austen , for the greater part of its course in England the novel has ...
... sense of being consciously made and shaped to an aesthetic end is quite new . Though there have been few more con- summate artists in the novel than Fielding and Jane Austen , for the greater part of its course in England the novel has ...
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... sense ) can make of " the grotesque " a healthy and attractive companion . Dogmatically , then , I am for the Great Without , for the method of external approach . ' But the tough - minded external approach is usually only possible so ...
... sense ) can make of " the grotesque " a healthy and attractive companion . Dogmatically , then , I am for the Great Without , for the method of external approach . ' But the tough - minded external approach is usually only possible so ...
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... sense - impressions , and associa- tions that must stand for the whole flow of mental activity , to be made ? It is impossible , with Pilgrimage , to speak of structure or form at all . There is selection , but it is largely the ...
... sense - impressions , and associa- tions that must stand for the whole flow of mental activity , to be made ? It is impossible , with Pilgrimage , to speak of structure or form at all . There is selection , but it is largely the ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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