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... kind . If there was no American Dickens , Thackeray , George Eliot or Trollope , there was equally no English Hawthorne or Melville . The divergence is radical , and light is thrown upon it by F. R. Leavis's note on Wuthering Heights in ...
... kind . If there was no American Dickens , Thackeray , George Eliot or Trollope , there was equally no English Hawthorne or Melville . The divergence is radical , and light is thrown upon it by F. R. Leavis's note on Wuthering Heights in ...
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... kind of criticism one brings to novels . Joyce addressed it , as he said himself , to ' that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia ' : in our time , the only reader likely to have the time and resources to give it the attention ...
... kind of criticism one brings to novels . Joyce addressed it , as he said himself , to ' that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia ' : in our time , the only reader likely to have the time and resources to give it the attention ...
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... kind Wilson seems able to bring off at will . Yet it is a limited one , for at the end of the novel we know scarcely more about Inge than we did at the beginning : she remains frozen in her postures of malign and self- deluded silliness ...
... kind Wilson seems able to bring off at will . Yet it is a limited one , for at the end of the novel we know scarcely more about Inge than we did at the beginning : she remains frozen in her postures of malign and self- deluded silliness ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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