The Two Most Common Charges Against The Older Fiction, That It Pleased Wickedly And That It Taught Nothing, Had Broken Down Before The Discovery, Except In Illiberal Sects, That The Novel Is Fitted Both For Honest Use And For Pleasure.

-Carl Clinton Van Doren

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The Two Most Common Charges Against The

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The Two Most Common Charges Against The Older Fiction, That It Pleased Wickedly And That It Taught Nothing, Had Broken Down Before The Discovery, Except In Illiberal Sects, That The Novel Is Fitted Both For Honest Use And For Pleasure.

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Discovery

Two

Broken

Although By 1851 Tales Of Adventure Had Begun To Seem Antiquated, They Had Rendered A Large Service To The Course Of Literature: They Had Removed The Stigma, For The Most Part, From The Word Novel.

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Adventure

Literature