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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 15

Bunyan in the seventeenth century do we leave the Knights of The Round Table and the princes and princesses of Arcadia.
In the eighteenth century, we find that Richardson and Fielding had their confused moral and social purposes, especially Fielding; but they subordinated these to the story and to the play of character.  Richardson the precursor of the long-regnant school of sentimental novelists, spent his literary life-time in trying to show the integrity and uprightness of the Grandisonian order are more attractive than the vices of the "town" in the era of the Georges. Fielding says pointedly in the preface to "Tom Jones" that by displaying the beauty of virtue he has attempted to convince men that their true instinct directed them to a pursuit of her. DeFoe was much given to good, round and simple moralizing of the Benjamin Franklin kind and his Robinson Crusoe is a moral Englishman abroad. Moralizing,
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Bunyan in the seventeenth century do we leave the Knights of The Round Table and the princes and princesses of Arcadia. In the eighteenth century, we find that Richardson and Fielding had their confused moral and social purposes, especially Fielding; but they subordinated these to the story and to the play of character. Richardson the precursor of the long-regnant school of sentimental novelists, spent his literary life-time in trying to show the integrity and uprightness of the Grandisonian order are more attractive than the vices of the "town" in the era of the Georges. Fielding says pointedly in the preface to "Tom Jones" that by displaying the beauty of virtue he has attempted to convince men that their true instinct directed them to a pursuit of her. DeFoe was much given to good, round and simple moralizing of the Benjamin Franklin kind and his Robinson Crusoe is a moral Englishman abroad. Moralizing, 12.