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It is impossible to insist too much on so important a truth,and the place that Mr.Besant demands for the work of the novelist may be represented,a trifle less abstractly,by saying that he demands not only that it shall be reputed artistic,but that it shall be reputed very artistic indeed.It is excellent that he should have struck this note,for his doing so indicates that there was need of it,that his proposition may be to many people a novelty.One rubs one's eyes at the thought; but the rest of Mr.Besant's essay confirms the revelation.I suspect,in truth,that it would be possible to confirm it still further,and that one would not be far wrong in saying that in addition to the people to whom it has never occurred that a novel ought to be artistic,there are a great many others who,if this principle were urged upon them,would be filled with an indefinable mistrust.They would find it difficult to explain their repugnance,but it would operate strongly to put them on their guard.'Art,' in our Protestant communities,where so many things have got so strangely twisted about,is supposed,in certain circles,to have some vaguely injurious effect upon those who make it an important consideration,who let it weigh in the balance.It is assumed to be opposed in some mysterious manner to morality,to amusement,to instruction.When it is embodied in the work of the painter (the sculptor is another affair!) you know what it is; it stands there before you,in the honesty of pink and green and a gilt frame; you can see the worst of it at a glance,and you can be on your guard.But when it is introduced into literature it becomes more insidious-there is danger of its hurting you before you know it.Literature should be either instructive or amusing,and there is in many minds an impression that these artistic preoccupations,the search for form,contribute to neither end,interfere indeed with both.They are too frivolous to be edifying,and too serious to be diverting; and they are,moreover,priggish and paradoxical and superfluous.That,I think,represents the manner in which the latent thought of many people who read novels as an exercise in skipping would explain itself if it were to become articulate.They would argue,of course,that a novel ought to be 'good,' but they would interpret this term in a fashion of their own,which,indeed,would vary considerably from one critic to another.One would say that being good means representing virtuous and aspiring characters,placed in prominent positions;
It is impossible to insist too much on so important a truth,and the place that Mr.Besant demands for the work of the novelist may be represented,a trifle less abstractly,by saying that he demands not only that it shall be reputed artistic,but that it shall be reputed very artistic indeed.It is excellent that he should have struck this note,for his doing so indicates that there was need of it,that his proposition may be to many people a novelty.One rubs one's eyes at the thought; but the rest of Mr.Besant's essay confirms the revelation.I suspect,in truth,that it would be possible to confirm it still further,and that one would not be far wrong in saying that in addition to the people to whom it has never occurred that a novel ought to be artistic,there are a great many others who,if this principle were urged upon them,would be filled with an indefinable mistrust.They would find it difficult to explain their repugnance,but it would operate strongly to put them on their guard.'Art,' in our Protestant communities,where so many things have got so strangely twisted about,is supposed,in certain circles,to have some vaguely injurious effect upon those who make it an important consideration,who let it weigh in the balance.It is assumed to be opposed in some mysterious manner to morality,to amusement,to instruction.When it is embodied in the work of the painter (the sculptor is another affair!) you know what it is; it stands there before you,in the honesty of pink and green and a gilt frame; you can see the worst of it at a glance,and you can be on your guard.But when it is introduced into literature it becomes more insidious-there is danger of its hurting you before you know it.Literature should be either instructive or amusing,and there is in many minds an impression that these artistic preoccupations,the search for form,contribute to neither end,interfere indeed with both.They are too frivolous to be edifying,and too serious to be diverting; and they are,moreover,priggish and paradoxical and superfluous.That,I think,represents the manner in which the latent thought of many people who read novels as an exercise in skipping would explain itself if it were to become articulate.They would argue,of course,that a novel ought to be 'good,' but they would interpret this term in a fashion of their own,which,indeed,would vary considerably from one critic to another.One would say that being good means representing virtuous and aspiring characters,placed in prominent positions;
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