Description |
4 preliminary leaves, 7-332 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
The common reader.--The Pastons and Chaucer.--On not knowing Greek.--The Elizabethan lumber room.--Notes on an Elizabethan play.--Montaigne.--The Duchess of Newcastle.--Rambling round Evelyn.--Defoe.--Addison.--The lives of the obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths. Laetitia Pilkington. Miss Ormerod.--Jane Austen.--Modern fiction.--"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights".--George Eliot.--The Russian point of view.--Outlines: Miss Mitford. Dr. Bentley. Lady Dorothy Nevill. Archbishop Thomson.--The patron and the crocus.--The modern essay.--Joseph Conrad.--How it strikes a contemporary. |
Subject |
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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