Is it really true that the novel is not a tool for social betterment? Not the normative question of whether it should be or not but the simple factual question of whether it is or not. Historically novels have in fact sparked social change.
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I mean Harriet Beecher Stowe is famous for a reason...
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Also, Defoe, with roots in socially conscious journalism.
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Sure, but isn't the modernist novel specifically intended to be anti-didactic?
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Because it was thought that anti-didacticism was useful
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also journalism
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Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded seems like an important precedent here too. Among the first novels in English, it was explicitly written to help reinforce moral norms. It quickly inspired parodies that subverted it's moralizing.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela;_or,_Virtue_Rewarded …
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This strikes me as a weird ass question to ask on Twitter given the complexity of topic wealth of scholarship associated with it
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Dickens' early novels, especially Nicholas Nickleby, were instrumental in transforming conditions in schools so that students were no longer at the mercy of sadistic teachers
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Multatuli’s Max Havelaar single handedly transformed Dutch colonial politics and taught a country to be more aware what their prosperity was built on
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dulce et utile -- "delightful and useful"
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