The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 8
... discuss in this book ; much of the time inevitably so , for reasons which I hope to establish as my discussion proceeds . - The debts I incurred in writing this book were manifold ; not merely to the distinguished novelists and critics ...
... discuss in this book ; much of the time inevitably so , for reasons which I hope to establish as my discussion proceeds . - The debts I incurred in writing this book were manifold ; not merely to the distinguished novelists and critics ...
Page 41
... discussion back to the question of character in the novel . Although we may truly say that the novel is the characteristic literary form of an age of bourgeois individualism , the novel is concerned with more than simple individuals ...
... discussion back to the question of character in the novel . Although we may truly say that the novel is the characteristic literary form of an age of bourgeois individualism , the novel is concerned with more than simple individuals ...
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... discussion of character in the late W. J. Harvey's book , Character and the Novel , published in 1965. His ideas are similar to those of John Bayley and Iris Murdoch , although his book contains more argument and aims to be more ...
... discussion of character in the late W. J. Harvey's book , Character and the Novel , published in 1965. His ideas are similar to those of John Bayley and Iris Murdoch , although his book contains more argument and aims to be more ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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