Henry James, Matthew Arnold, F. R. leavis are all doing the same work of trying to create a high form of English discipline to distinguish it from popular readership
though Henry James talked about seriousness as a criteria of novel, it is highly debated as it signifies that women and children usually are not to be included in its readership. h...
Henry James’s “The Art of Fiction” remains one of the most influential statements on the theory of the novel. The essay concisely assesses the condition of the genre up to his own ...