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The Ethical Tendency of the English Novel by Helen M. Harney, 1897

The Ethical Tendency of the English Novel by Helen M. Harney, 1897, Page 5

on given conditions. In poetry and the drama, and I might perhaps even add in history, hardly any man has ever become great except by having in the first instance the literary dangers and penalties of rebellion. This the novelist escaped. No on insisted that "Tom Jones" ought to have talked in the style of the "Grand Cyrus", and the existence of  "Tom Jones" did not necessitates sentence of death upon "Waverly"; nor did "Waverly" interfere with "Oliver Twist"; nor did "Oliver Twist" darken the rising prospect of "Pendennis". If a man or woman attempt to be a novelist and fail, the blame cannot be laid to the account of pedantic critical legislation. Perhaps this happy freedom is greatly owing to the fact that criticism deliberately ignored the novelist, and regarded him or a creature outside the pale of art, no more responsible to rule and law of critical counts than Richardson is expected to conform to the dramatic
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on given conditions. In poetry and the drama, and I might perhaps even add in history, hardly any man has ever become great except by having in the first instance the literary dangers and penalties of rebellion. This the novelist escaped. No on insisted that "Tom Jones" ought to have talked in the style of the "Grand Cyrus", and the existence of "Tom Jones" did not necessitates sentence of death upon "Waverly"; nor did "Waverly" interfere with "Oliver Twist"; nor did "Oliver Twist" darken the rising prospect of "Pendennis". If a man or woman attempt to be a novelist and fail, the blame cannot be laid to the account of pedantic critical legislation. Perhaps this happy freedom is greatly owing to the fact that criticism deliberately ignored the novelist, and regarded him or a creature outside the pale of art, no more responsible to rule and law of critical counts than Richardson is expected to conform to the dramatic 2.