The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare

· 1932

The French conquest of England in the eleventh century--The mind and literature of the new-comers--Their romances, their short tales 31 II. Effects of the conquest on the minds of the English inhabitants--Slow awakening of the native writers--Awakening of the clerks, of the translators and imitators--The English inhabitants connected through a literary imposture with Troy and the classical nations of antiquity--Consequences of this imposture.…

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