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Uutil very recently it has been though that Defoe was the father of the modern realistic novel. Dr., Ernest Bernbaum '02, in his work on "The Mary Carleton Narratives," has suggested a new source of English realism in the seventeenth century police court biographies. Mary Carleton, a once famous adventuress, has been the subject of many biographies, which give not only a picture of the charlatinism of the period, but a clue to a numerous series of plagiarisms...
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...Bernbaum, A. M., Warren House; P. M., 86 Sparks...
...English literature, Dr. Bernbaum has made an important contribution in "The Mary Carleton Narratives 1663-1673,--A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel." This intrinsically interesting book is significant since it shows that even in the Restoration Period the art of realistic fiction was practiced. Hitherto the narratives were thought to be biographical instead of fictional. The Press also announces a translation by G. W. Robinson, Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, of "Eugippius: The Life of Saint Severinus," a document of the history and life of the Fifth Century, for the first time...