The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... literary influence , the indebtedness of one writer to others , is much more difficult and complex than some literary historians seem to think . The apparent influence of an older novelist on a later may , in fact , be no influence at ...
... literary influence , the indebtedness of one writer to others , is much more difficult and complex than some literary historians seem to think . The apparent influence of an older novelist on a later may , in fact , be no influence at ...
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... literary form too narrowly . To summarize the plot is to say even less about the book than such a procedure usually does . We may bor- row E. M. Forster's word and call it a fantasy , which at least indicates that Sterne was not out to ...
... literary form too narrowly . To summarize the plot is to say even less about the book than such a procedure usually does . We may bor- row E. M. Forster's word and call it a fantasy , which at least indicates that Sterne was not out to ...
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... literary merit was written in the form of the novel , though novels poured from the press in an ever - swelling flood . Many reasons have been put forward for this sudden collapse in the standards of a form which had been raised to such ...
... literary merit was written in the form of the novel , though novels poured from the press in an ever - swelling flood . Many reasons have been put forward for this sudden collapse in the standards of a form which had been raised to such ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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