The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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Page 85
... less , and reason seemed powerless to correct them . The appeal was therefore to the heart , to the feelings , which Sterne had so well shown how to touch , though Sterne's great achievement , the use of sensibility for the purposes of ...
... less , and reason seemed powerless to correct them . The appeal was therefore to the heart , to the feelings , which Sterne had so well shown how to touch , though Sterne's great achievement , the use of sensibility for the purposes of ...
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... less . George Borrow ( 1803-81 ) is perhaps even less a novelist than Surtees . Lavengro ( 1851 ) and Romany Rye ( 1857 ) in fact compose a single work , which even so is incomplete . Conceived as an autobiography , it is essentially ...
... less . George Borrow ( 1803-81 ) is perhaps even less a novelist than Surtees . Lavengro ( 1851 ) and Romany Rye ( 1857 ) in fact compose a single work , which even so is incomplete . Conceived as an autobiography , it is essentially ...
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... less than Collins's skill . Uncle Silas represents the horror story in transition to the modern story of detection . So far as I know it is the first novel to include the now familiar puzzle of murder in a sealed room . But in fact ...
... less than Collins's skill . Uncle Silas represents the horror story in transition to the modern story of detection . So far as I know it is the first novel to include the now familiar puzzle of murder in a sealed room . But in fact ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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