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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 29

in our own domestic civilization. Time was when English fiction dealt mainly with the ladies and gentlemen of England, of more than that,m then at best it concerned itself with the farmers of the Midland Counties, the rough Yorkshire moorlanders; but at the present time, the intense desire of half the world to know how the other half lives has produced a new type of fiction. Zangwill tells the West End all about the Jews in the slums of Whitechapel. Thomas Hardy transports us to the old world cabin of Wessex peasants and woodlanders; William Black to the bothies of Highland crafters. And I hold that this tendency to minute specialization and localization is closely bound up with the purposive tendency in fiction: both because the same men and women are engaged in either type and because the delineation of strange undercurrents
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in our own domestic civilization. Time was when English fiction dealt mainly with the ladies and gentlemen of England, of more than that,m then at best it concerned itself with the farmers of the Midland Counties, the rough Yorkshire moorlanders; but at the present time, the intense desire of half the world to know how the other half lives has produced a new type of fiction. Zangwill tells the West End all about the Jews in the slums of Whitechapel. Thomas Hardy transports us to the old world cabin of Wessex peasants and woodlanders; William Black to the bothies of Highland crafters. And I hold that this tendency to minute specialization and localization is closely bound up with the purposive tendency in fiction: both because the same men and women are engaged in either type and because the delineation of strange undercurrents 26.