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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 30

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and phases of human life is in itself educational. hardy, for example, who gave us "Far from The Madding Crowd," is also hardy who gave us "Tess of The D'Urbervilles" and "Jude the Obscure." Hall Caine, who set before us the Isle of Man and its Deemsters, is Hall Caine who approaches those same underlying problems of sex which form the main theme of Hardy and Meredith. Moreover, the passion for the description of local rural and distinctively tribal or provincial life is closely bound up with the revolt of race, the seething and pervasive democratic movement which in Europe is bringing the Celt and the Slav to the front. Hence the modern Celt revival in Scotland, represented by Fiona Macleod; hence the Celtic revival in Ireland represented bu Nora Hopper and many vigorous new writers; hence the Scandinavian outburst and the fresh young 27.
 
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