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Page 135
... twentieth - century science , beyond a certain amount of trivial and inaccurate allusion . Yet it could be argued that the art and literature of the Modern Movement reflect the deeply changed concept of reality that has been indicated ...
... twentieth - century science , beyond a certain amount of trivial and inaccurate allusion . Yet it could be argued that the art and literature of the Modern Movement reflect the deeply changed concept of reality that has been indicated ...
Page 137
... twentieth - century Modern Movement . In prac- tice , whatever his overt beliefs , Snow is the most deeply backward- looking and nostalgic of living English novelists , forcing his civil servants and businessmen and scientists into a ...
... twentieth - century Modern Movement . In prac- tice , whatever his overt beliefs , Snow is the most deeply backward- looking and nostalgic of living English novelists , forcing his civil servants and businessmen and scientists into a ...
Page 152
... twentieth century with the methods of Henry James , and even less with the methods of Dickens . One thinks of a very good writer like Angus Wilson who , I think , is a marvellous observer of twentieth century mores , and I'm sure social ...
... twentieth century with the methods of Henry James , and even less with the methods of Dickens . One thinks of a very good writer like Angus Wilson who , I think , is a marvellous observer of twentieth century mores , and I'm sure social ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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