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... century to banish all adornment , all resort to modifiers and metaphors , from writing , even from fiction or autobiography . The 19th- century French novelist Stendhal said he sought the dry- ness of the Civil Code in his prose ...
... century to banish all adornment , all resort to modifiers and metaphors , from writing , even from fiction or autobiography . The 19th- century French novelist Stendhal said he sought the dry- ness of the Civil Code in his prose ...
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... 19th - century novelists . The typical features of 20th - century literature first be- gan to emerge after World War I , and essential forms and themes of modern writing were to be seen in ferment and growth from the 1920s onward ...
... 19th - century novelists . The typical features of 20th - century literature first be- gan to emerge after World War I , and essential forms and themes of modern writing were to be seen in ferment and growth from the 1920s onward ...
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Anti- Romantic criticism The great influence of Words- worth on the 19th century Tennyson as the representa- tive poet of his age The emergence of a social conscience in Victorian England The. His great dramatic gifts and power of ...
Anti- Romantic criticism The great influence of Words- worth on the 19th century Tennyson as the representa- tive poet of his age The emergence of a social conscience in Victorian England The. His great dramatic gifts and power of ...
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