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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 Eden and
...
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 Eden and
...
Page 164
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. But climates and geographies
soon ...
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. But climates and geographies
soon ...
Page 165
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 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
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| Title | The Situation of the Novel Critical essays in modern literature, ISSN 0070-153X |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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