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There is not , perhaps , anything particularly English about such a set of attitudes : critics such as Leslie Fiedler and R. W. B. Lewis have shown how American fiction tends to alternate between nostalgia for a vanished childhood or ...
There is not , perhaps , anything particularly English about such a set of attitudes : critics such as Leslie Fiedler and R. W. B. Lewis have shown how American fiction tends to alternate between nostalgia for a vanished childhood or ...
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traditional horror ; but the second stanza turns to contemporary apocalyptic imaginings : In him , perhaps , we see the general ogre Who rode our ancestors to nightmare , And in his habitat their maps of hell .
traditional horror ; but the second stanza turns to contemporary apocalyptic imaginings : In him , perhaps , we see the general ogre Who rode our ancestors to nightmare , And in his habitat their maps of hell .
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Perhaps , but that hardly mattered beside the existence of a moral seriousness that could be made apparent without the aid of evangelical puffing and blowing . In Take a Girl Like You Amis seems to have turned to Richardson rather than ...
Perhaps , but that hardly mattered beside the existence of a moral seriousness that could be made apparent without the aid of evangelical puffing and blowing . In Take a Girl Like You Amis seems to have turned to Richardson rather than ...
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Situation of the Novel |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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