British Writers: William Langland to the English Bible, Volumes 1-8This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. |
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Page 90
... novel than anything else he wrote . The first portion of the novel is the best and was the most influential . It deals with a situation that was to become one of those most favored by the novelists , especially the women novelists , who ...
... novel than anything else he wrote . The first portion of the novel is the best and was the most influential . It deals with a situation that was to become one of those most favored by the novelists , especially the women novelists , who ...
Page 157
... novel . It is a large gallery , with many styles . The reader of George Eliot's Middlemarch catches the surprise of style difference when suddenly , during the rich en- joyment of the character play in that novel , some- one mentions ...
... novel . It is a large gallery , with many styles . The reader of George Eliot's Middlemarch catches the surprise of style difference when suddenly , during the rich en- joyment of the character play in that novel , some- one mentions ...
Page 331
... novels by Godwin and by Goethe . Mary Shelley's book showed how the Gothic novel could widen its scope , and her kind of specula- tion on morality and man's scientific possibilities is a feature of the best of modern science fiction ...
... novels by Godwin and by Goethe . Mary Shelley's book showed how the Gothic novel could widen its scope , and her kind of specula- tion on morality and man's scientific possibilities is a feature of the best of modern science fiction ...
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