Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 77
... novels - Camilla and The Wanderer -were less admired , Fanny Burney's reputation remained very high . In fact , no ... novel was created -- as every history of literature tells us - by Richardson and Fielding . They conceived it on ...
... novels - Camilla and The Wanderer -were less admired , Fanny Burney's reputation remained very high . In fact , no ... novel was created -- as every history of literature tells us - by Richardson and Fielding . They conceived it on ...
Page 95
... novel is yet more import- ant than her achievement . She was the first writer to detect how it might be possible to combine the methods of Richardson and Fielding . Cecilia , in particular , is both a novel of analysis and a comic ...
... novel is yet more import- ant than her achievement . She was the first writer to detect how it might be possible to combine the methods of Richardson and Fielding . Cecilia , in particular , is both a novel of analysis and a comic ...
Page 141
... novel to them , like a Shakespeare play , was first of all a vivid , varied enter- tainment , full of incident and strongly marked charac- ters and humour and pathos and action . The French novel derives from a very different sort of ...
... novel to them , like a Shakespeare play , was first of all a vivid , varied enter- tainment , full of incident and strongly marked charac- ters and humour and pathos and action . The French novel derives from a very different sort of ...
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