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504 pages ; 21 cm |
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Contents: The dominance of the novel -- The inclusiveness of the novel -- The place of the novel in English literature -- Critical standards -- Scott, romance and the romantics -- Dickens and the folk-imagination -- Thackeray -- The spectacle of the Brontes -- The fellows of Scott and the earlier Victorians -- The higher provincialism of George Eliot -- George Meredith and his reading of life -- The mastery of Thomas Hardy -- Stevenson and the old question of style -- The creed of George Gissing -- George Moore, critic -- Barrie and the Kailyard School -- The lesser late Victorians -- The pageant of Joseph Conrad -- John Glasworthy, gentleman -- Maurice Hewlett, "Poet of sorts?" -- H. G. Wells, journalist -- Of Arnold Bennett, hard work and beauty -- The neo-Georgians. |
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English fiction -- History and criticism.
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Novelists, English.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Weygandt, Cornelius, 1871-1957. Century of the English novel. New York, Century, 1925 (OCoLC)587279451 |
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