The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... prose fiction . Something akin to the realis- tic drama , the splendid plays of Jonson , Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts , and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle , exists in prose fiction , in a cruder and ...
... prose fiction . Something akin to the realis- tic drama , the splendid plays of Jonson , Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts , and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle , exists in prose fiction , in a cruder and ...
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... prose . Understand- ably , for as a writer of imaginative prose he was unequaled in his age by any except Shakespeare , Jonson , and Web- ster . And his prose is still a living thing ; in our own time it has influenced both James Joyce ...
... prose . Understand- ably , for as a writer of imaginative prose he was unequaled in his age by any except Shakespeare , Jonson , and Web- ster . And his prose is still a living thing ; in our own time it has influenced both James Joyce ...
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... prose tales written in English and published betwe 1500 and 1660 , the great majority of them later than 1 8 and ... prose , for the ordinary purpos of prose , was clumsy . It could be noble in eloquence , a Taylor's and Donne's sermons ...
... prose tales written in English and published betwe 1500 and 1660 , the great majority of them later than 1 8 and ... prose , for the ordinary purpos of prose , was clumsy . It could be noble in eloquence , a Taylor's and Donne's sermons ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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