The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... opening page of Radcliffe , which describes the hero's first day as a boy at school , was modelled on the opening of Madame Bovary . Margaret Drabble said of her first novel , A Summer Birdcage : ' A lot of the plot was based on ...
... opening page of Radcliffe , which describes the hero's first day as a boy at school , was modelled on the opening of Madame Bovary . Margaret Drabble said of her first novel , A Summer Birdcage : ' A lot of the plot was based on ...
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... in Dick Thompson's bathroom which intimidates Jenny Bunn in the opening chapter of Take a Girl Like You . Robbe - Grillet would , S.N. - 6 * no doubt , regard this as deplorably superstitious , and BETWEEN NOSTALGIA AND NIGHTMARE 169.
... in Dick Thompson's bathroom which intimidates Jenny Bunn in the opening chapter of Take a Girl Like You . Robbe - Grillet would , S.N. - 6 * no doubt , regard this as deplorably superstitious , and BETWEEN NOSTALGIA AND NIGHTMARE 169.
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... opening sen- tences of Waugh's novel crisply epitomise the situation which I have tried to discuss in the course of this book : It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued ...
... opening sen- tences of Waugh's novel crisply epitomise the situation which I have tried to discuss in the course of this book : It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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