The Modern Novel a Study of the Purpose And the Meaning of Fiction
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." x Scott's use of this last concession in The Bride of Lammermoor, where he seems really to make a con- scious attempt at repairing the proportions of his earlier work, may go farther than is commonly per- ceived toward accounting for the peculiar distinction of this most lyrical of his tales; though it still re- mains odd that Scott could be on the whole so in- different a practitioner of that which he so shrewdly perceived and argued. i From the "Preliminary" of the Introduction to The Brid...e of Lammermoor. D B S I N 253 IV So far I speak of a general ideal of craftsmanship which is more French than English, and of some of its practical effects on English fiction. Now let us see what was the general effect of the Russians. We shall find it to have been sweeping; for it resulted in the creation of a strikingly new form in fiction, a form which we may take the risk of calling the novel of the future. At all events it is the novel of the present, and decidedly not the novel of the past.
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