That's a social class choice and not a literary choice.
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It's not like the proletariat are all voracious Dickens readers in 2021
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James wrote better sentences; Dickens told better stories.
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Zola was a great storyteller and student of human nature.
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Hardly.
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Dreiser loomed much larger then. Didn't age as well for some reason.
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Trilling was one of the reasons.
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James in the context of Flaubert and Turgenev. His mentors and friends and how he would have seen the Agon
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He was writing about American lit specifically, which excludes Zola and Dickens, and not necessarily making a global comparison (though he does edge into that) but a specific point about "reality" in art (or really criticism).
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