American Literary CriticismWilliam Morton Payne Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 318 pages |
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... English Novel " ; and to Messrs . Harper & Brothers for Howells's " The Art of the Novelist " and " Tolstoy . " Both Mr. Sted- man and Mr. Howells have joined with their publishers in granting the above permission ; and Mr. James has ...
... English Novel " ; and to Messrs . Harper & Brothers for Howells's " The Art of the Novelist " and " Tolstoy . " Both Mr. Sted- man and Mr. Howells have joined with their publishers in granting the above permission ; and Mr. James has ...
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... Novelist · Tolstoy SIDNEY LANIER . 1842-1881 The English Novel HENRY JAMES . 1843- Sainte - Beuve 1833- Page 221 1837- 253 265 273 299 AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM T INTRODUCTION HE literature of a nation xii CONTENTS.
... Novelist · Tolstoy SIDNEY LANIER . 1842-1881 The English Novel HENRY JAMES . 1843- Sainte - Beuve 1833- Page 221 1837- 253 265 273 299 AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM T INTRODUCTION HE literature of a nation xii CONTENTS.
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... English literature , it is not , of course , to be looked for in the history of American literature , which is nothing more than that part of English litera- ture produced in the new world during three centuries of English occupation ...
... English literature , it is not , of course , to be looked for in the history of American literature , which is nothing more than that part of English litera- ture produced in the new world during three centuries of English occupation ...
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... English settlers in America might easily enough , as far as we can see , have carried on the literary tradition of the mother country . But the peculiar mixture of religious and political motives which impelled these men to seek new ...
... English settlers in America might easily enough , as far as we can see , have carried on the literary tradition of the mother country . But the peculiar mixture of religious and political motives which impelled these men to seek new ...
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... English people , that our first serious attempt was made to cultivate the hitherto untouched field of literary criticism . Criticism as a department of literary production presupposes a certain degree of liberal cultivation among ...
... English people , that our first serious attempt was made to cultivate the hitherto untouched field of literary criticism . Criticism as a department of literary production presupposes a certain degree of liberal cultivation among ...
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