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... remains sub- stantially true ; as may be seen if we set beside it a statement from a modern critic , Lionel Trilling , in The Liberal Imagination : For our time the most effective agent of the moral imagination has been the novel of the ...
... remains sub- stantially true ; as may be seen if we set beside it a statement from a modern critic , Lionel Trilling , in The Liberal Imagination : For our time the most effective agent of the moral imagination has been the novel of the ...
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... remains a very agreeable work , written in a very agreeable eighteenth - century prose . Graves was a much smaller writer than Fielding , but like him wrote as a scholar and a gentleman , with a similar urbanity and a belief in the ...
... remains a very agreeable work , written in a very agreeable eighteenth - century prose . Graves was a much smaller writer than Fielding , but like him wrote as a scholar and a gentleman , with a similar urbanity and a belief in the ...
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... remains to him than appears from Aspects of the Novel , and what remains is not merely his historical influence . That was enormous ; one may say , quite simply , that he made the European novel and say something much more true than ...
... remains to him than appears from Aspects of the Novel , and what remains is not merely his historical influence . That was enormous ; one may say , quite simply , that he made the European novel and say something much more true than ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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