Vulgar words in The English Novel (Page 1)
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Instead of being, like _Lucius_ and the _Golden Ass_, a tissue of stories essentially unconnected and little more than framed by the main tale, it is, though it may have a few episodes, an example of at least romantic unity throughout, with definite hero and definite heroine, the prominence and importance of the latter being specially noteworthy.
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One may look back to the _Odyssey_ itself without finding anything so good, except the adventures of the Golden Ass which had all the story-work of two mightiest literatures behind them.
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At the same time, bastard as the heroic romance was, it could not but exercise an important influence on the future of fiction, inasmuch as it combined, or attempted to combine, with classical unity and mediæval variety the more modern interest of manners and (sometimes) personality.
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If it had been published in three volumes, one cannot imagine the most enthusiastic novel-reader knocking up a friend late at night for volume two or volume three.
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But the new romance was of rather a bastard kind, and it showed more of the bad blood than of the good till, by a curious coincidence, Scott once more found the true strain, just about the same time as that at which Miss Austen was making known the true strain of the novel proper.
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INDEX _Adam Bede_ Adams, W. Addison _Adeline Mowbray_ Aelfric _Agathos_ Ainsworth, H. _Alton Locke_ _Amadis_ _Amelia_ _Amis and Amillion_ Amory, Thomas _Anabasis, The_ Anglo-Saxon, Romance in _Anna_ _Anna St. Ives_ _Apollonius of Tyre_ Apuleius Arblay, Madame d', _see_ Burney, F. _Arcadia, The_ _Aretina_ _Arthour and Merlin_ Arthurian Legend, the; its romantic concentration _Ask Mamma_ _Ass, The Golden_ _Atlantis, The New_ Austen, Miss _Badman, Mr_.