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Excerpt from Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray Carlyle George Eliot Matthew Arnold Ruskin George Meredith
Difficulty of the novelist existed for Thackeray at all. It was not an Obstacle he had to circumvent. Whether we agree with Maupassant that in general it can best be circumvented by the impersonal attitude, or with Mr. James that there is no reliance to be placed upon any mere attitude, we may at least note that in the work of novelists of indisputably the first rank this difficulty does not have to be circumvented, since for them it does not exist. It exists for novelists impressed by the beauty of the problem. Criticism is certainly legitimately occupied with discovering the laws of artistic production, and to these laws certainly the production of the greatest artists, as well as that of the least, is legitimately subject. But if these laws.
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