The Author, the Book & the ReaderGreenwich Exchange, 1991 - 220 pages This collection of essays analyses the effects of changing technology and the attendant commercial pressures on literary styles and subject matter. Authors covered include Charles Dickens, Tobias George Smollett, Mark Twain, Dr Johnson and John le Carre. |
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Page 78
... Dupin's individualism is wholly American . He is also , be it noted , a young man . 3 . Writing in The Atlantic ... Dupin and the relationship between Poe - as - narrator and the Chevalier Dupin will reveal that these opinions require ...
... Dupin's individualism is wholly American . He is also , be it noted , a young man . 3 . Writing in The Atlantic ... Dupin and the relationship between Poe - as - narrator and the Chevalier Dupin will reveal that these opinions require ...
Page 81
... Dupin to us , is from Sir Thomas Browne's Urn - Burial , and associates Dupin immediately with Achilles . His mental characteristics are given us as emphatically analyti- cal , rational and reflective . But these qualities are harnessed ...
... Dupin to us , is from Sir Thomas Browne's Urn - Burial , and associates Dupin immediately with Achilles . His mental characteristics are given us as emphatically analyti- cal , rational and reflective . But these qualities are harnessed ...
Page 84
... Dupin and Poe - as - narrator is put to the reader . Poe doubts that the Minister is a poet : The Minister I believe has written learnedly on the Differential Calculus . He is a mathematician , and no poet . ' 33 Dupin disagrees ; he ...
... Dupin and Poe - as - narrator is put to the reader . Poe doubts that the Minister is a poet : The Minister I believe has written learnedly on the Differential Calculus . He is a mathematician , and no poet . ' 33 Dupin disagrees ; he ...
Contents
Samuel Johnson as Parliamentary | 29 |
Tobias Smollett and the West Indian | 48 |
Edgar Allan Poe meets Inspector Morse | 72 |
Copyright | |
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