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User Review - stillatim - LibraryThingCrazy uneven: the introductory chapters are great. Bergonzi was clearly at his best making general arguments, and the contrasts he draws between American and English literature are interesting. But in ... Read full review
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The situation of the novel Documentary History of Western civilisation |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| Length | 225 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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