. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. t historicalnovels in English. In The Nezucomes, a. later novel, asif to make amends for his early satire on society, hedrew a portrait at full length of a true-hearted, noble gentle-man, Colonel Newcome. Thackeray learned the art offiction from an earlier master, Henry Fielding. From himhe adopted the practice of occasionally turning asidefrom the story to comment upon his characters, or to chat,as it were, with his
. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. t historicalnovels in English. In The Nezucomes, a. later novel, asif to make amends for his early satire on society, hedrew a portrait at full length of a true-hearted, noble gentle-man, Colonel Newcome. Thackeray learned the art offiction from an earlier master, Henry Fielding. From himhe adopted the practice of occasionally turning asidefrom the story to comment upon his characters, or to chat,as it were, with his readers on other topics. From Fielding,too, Thackeray learned the art of plot construction. Dick-enss stories are apt to be rambling, and incidents are in-troduced which have little or no relation to the main Thackerays stories have a plot in the sense that a playhas a plot. In his treatment of characters, also, Thackeraydiffers from Dickens. He does not exaggerate; he triesto make his people as much like those of real life as pos-sible ; the incidents in his stories appeal to us as probableand natural. From this faithfulness in making his mimic GEORGE ELIOT III. world a true picture of the real world, Thackeray is classedamong the great realists in fiction. George Eliot (1819-1880), whose real name was MaryAnn Evans, is the third of the group of great was born in Warwickshire,on a farm of which her fatherwas manager, and her early yearswere passed among country peo-ple. She was a great reader,and since no colleges were opento women at that time, educatedherself with the help of could read seven languages,and was an eager student ofscience and philosophy. Shewrote articles for the Westmin-ster Review, and became one ofits editors. This took her toLondon, where she met theleading intellectual men of the time. She became thewife of George Henry Lewes, and at his suggestion triedher hand at fiction, writing a series of sketches called Scenesof C
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