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Table of Contents: “…Miscellaneous essays: The historical novel. Modern English prose. English prose style. …”

Table of Contents: “…Miscellaneous essays: The historical novel. -- Modern English prose. -- English prose style. -- The present state of the English novel. -- Shakespeare and the grand style. -- Milton and the grand style. -- Dante and the grand style. -- The cookery of the grouse. -- The cookery of the partridge. -- The young England movement. -- Thoughts on republics. -- Twenty years of reviewing. -- Spelling reform. -- The permanent and the temporary in literature. -- Bolshevism in its cradle. -- IV. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Public and private meanings in Patronage / Claire Connolly -- Banim and the historical novel / Emer Nolan -- Squatting the deserted village: idyllic resistance in Griffin's The Collegians / Dominick Tracy -- The fiction of improvement / Helen O'Connell -- Emigration and the Irish novel: Charles Lever, the picaresque and the emergence of the Irish emigration narrative form / Jason King -- Protestant form and Catholic fiction? …”

Table of Contents: “…Oratory and history : Godwin's History of the life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Victoria Myers ; The disfiguration of enlightenment : war, trauma, and the historical novel in Godwin's Mandeville / Tilottama Rajan ; "This is the dread hour, /that must decide the fate of England!" …”
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Table of Contents: “…Gunnemann -- Hermann Hesse and the Weimar Republic / Paul Bishop -- In defense of reason and justice: Lion Feuchtwanger's historical novels of the Weimar Republic / Roland Dollinger -- The case of Jakob Wassermann: social, legal, and personal crises in the Weimar Republic / Karl Leydecker -- Signs of the times: Joseph Roth's Weimar journalism / Helen Chambers -- Ernst Jünger, the new nationalists, and the memory of the First World War / Roger Woods -- Innocent killing: Erich Maria Remarque and the Weimar anti-war novels / Brian Murdoch -- In "A far-off land": B. …”
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Table of Contents: “…"A world away from his people": James Welch's The heartsong of Charging Elk and the Indian historical novel / James J. Donahue; Ghost dance literature: spectrality in Heartsong / Ulla Haselstein; Tribal or transnational? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Andrey Platonov : A Proletarian Writing -- Son of Proletkult -- Chevengur as Historical Novel -- Chevengur as Utopia -- Foundation Pit : Impossible Infrastructure -- Happy Moscow : Superstructural People -- The Soul of Man Under Communism -- Socialist Tragedy -- The Factory of Literature -- PART II. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Captain Pantoja and the special service and Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter / Michael Wood -- The historical novel. The war of the end of the world / Juan E. de Castro and Nicholas Birns -- Innocence and corruption. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Mitchell -- Plotting women : Froude and Strickland on Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots / Rohan Maitzen -- Emily Sarah Holt and the evangelical historical novel : undoing Sir Walter Scott / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein -- Toward a literary historiography in Gaskell and Eliot / Neil McCaw -- "Warriors for the working day" : history, dance, and collaborative authority in England and her soldiers / Maria Frawley -- Isabella Bird's journey through the Yangtze Valley : Victorian travel narrative as a historical record of British imperial desires in China / May Caroline Chan -- Rooms of the past : Victorian women writers, history, and the reconstruction of domestic space / Alexis Easley -- Clio's dressmakers : women and the uses of historical costume / Nanette Thrush.…”
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