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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 the intermingling of tragedy and comedy . The very fact that Shakespeare wrote in English made the novel as it was written in nineteenth - century France , for example , impossible in England except as an occasional sport ...
... novel , in the intermingling of tragedy and comedy . The very fact that Shakespeare wrote in English made the novel as it was written in nineteenth - century France , for example , impossible in England except as an occasional sport ...
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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
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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