The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Appearance of Waverly |
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... realism ; Thomas Lodge ; his romances and pamphlets ; Thomas Nash ; his life and controversies ; his style ; his ... realistic method ; Robinson Crusoe ; its practical bias ; its CHAPTER origin ; Defoe's treatment of the supernatural ...
... realism ; Thomas Lodge ; his romances and pamphlets ; Thomas Nash ; his life and controversies ; his style ; his ... realistic method ; Robinson Crusoe ; its practical bias ; its CHAPTER origin ; Defoe's treatment of the supernatural ...
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... art of narration in verse . Not until cen- turies after his time could there be found in English prose the equivalent of his spirited incident , his delicate characterization , his dramatic realism , his sly gentle humour I. ] 7 Chaucer .
... art of narration in verse . Not until cen- turies after his time could there be found in English prose the equivalent of his spirited incident , his delicate characterization , his dramatic realism , his sly gentle humour I. ] 7 Chaucer .
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... realism , his sly gentle humour . It is not merely that he succeeded , alone among the writers of his age and nation , in ridding himself of the allegorical fetters that cramped the growth of English literature even in the fifteenth ...
... realism , his sly gentle humour . It is not merely that he succeeded , alone among the writers of his age and nation , in ridding himself of the allegorical fetters that cramped the growth of English literature even in the fifteenth ...
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... realistic romance . Of Robert Greene , the facts that are known are chiefly drawn or inferred from his autobiographical pamphlets . He was born at Norwich about 1560 , and entered St. John's College , Cambridge , in 1575. There he " con ...
... realistic romance . Of Robert Greene , the facts that are known are chiefly drawn or inferred from his autobiographical pamphlets . He was born at Norwich about 1560 , and entered St. John's College , Cambridge , in 1575. There he " con ...
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... beauty of this pastoral tale . An Alarum against Usurers , Lodge's first essay in the more directly moral and realistic style of writing , was published in 1584 , earlier than Greene's " coney- 70 [ CHAP . The English Novel .
... beauty of this pastoral tale . An Alarum against Usurers , Lodge's first essay in the more directly moral and realistic style of writing , was published in 1584 , earlier than Greene's " coney- 70 [ CHAP . The English Novel .
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adventures alliteration Arcadia Artabanes artistic better borrowed called Castle of Otranto Caxton century character Charlemagne Charles Chaucer comedy court criticism death Defoe delight drama Elizabethan England English prose Euphues Euphuism expression fashion Fielding Fielding's French Gabriel Harvey heart hero heroic romance honour human humour Huon of Bordeaux imagination imitators influence interest Italian King Arthur lady later literary literature living lovers Lucilla Lyly Lyly's Malory medieval Miss moral narration narrative Nash nature never novel novelists original Pamela pamphlets passion Philautus play plot poem poetic poetry political praise preface prose fiction reader realistic reign Richardson romances of chivalry satire says scenes Scott sentiment Shakespeare Sidney's Sir Philip Sidney Smollett society speak spirit story style success supernatural tale taste theme tion Tom Jones translation verse virtue Walpole William Copland words writers written Wynkyn de Worde