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The Language of the Novel

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Here is a passage from a novel written by Richard Graves (1715-1804) in 1772. The novel is called The Spiritual Quixote and it concerns two characters in particular, Mr Geoffrey Wildgoose and his manservant, Jerry Tugwell, who set off through England to preach Methodism in much the same way as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had set out to present an example to the world of the virtues of chivalry in Cervantes’ novel, published in 1605.

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  1. Richard Graves, The Spiritual Quixote (London: Peter Davies, 1926) pp. 73–4.

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  2. Ibid., p. 75.

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  3. Ibid., pp. 75–6.

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  4. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965) pp. 66–7.

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  5. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 1965) pp. 37–8.

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  6. Ibid., pp. 38–9.

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  7. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (London: Macmillan and Co., 1950) pp. 34–6.

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  8. Christina Stead, For Love Alone (London: Peter Davies, 1945) p. 189.

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  9. Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (London: Longman Caribbean, 1972) pp. 57–8.

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  10. Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born (London: Heinemann. 1969) pp. 34–5.

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  11. Ibid., pp. 117–18.

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Milligan, I. (1983). The Language of the Novel. In: The Novel in English. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17117-0_3

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