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Tuckerman's History of Fiction
November 9, 1882 issue

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This article focuses on the book "A History of English Prose Fiction. From Sir Thomas Mallory to George Eliot," by Baynard Tuckerman. In a brief compass Tuckerman has attempted, as he says in his preface, to trace the gradual progress of English prose fiction from the early romance to the novel of the present day in such connection with the social characteristics of the epochs to which these works respectively belong as may conduce to a better comprehension of their nature and significance. As the novel has inevitably grown out of these social characteristics, this form of treatment is likely to give a much fairer picture of the rise and progress of English fiction than any purely literary method.

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HISTORY of English Prose Fiction: From Sir Thomas Mallory to George Eliot, A (Book); ENGLISH literature; TUCKERMAN, Baynard; BOOKS; ENGLISH fiction; NOVELISTS
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