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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2021

    Lionel Trilling stacked the deck by presenting a choice between Henry James vs. Theodore Dreiser. It's a bit more of a challenge if it's James vs. Zola or Dickens.

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      2. M.N. Moore‏ @MNMooreofBoston 13 Nov 2021
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        That's a social class choice and not a literary choice.

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      3. Tim Pavlovich‏ @PavlovichTim 13 Nov 2021
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        It's not like the proletariat are all voracious Dickens readers in 2021

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      1. AbhiDhabi5‏ @AbhiDhabi5 13 Nov 2021
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        James wrote better sentences; Dickens told better stories.

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      1. Lynne Antonelli‏ @lynne_antonelli 13 Nov 2021
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        Zola was a great storyteller and student of human nature.

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      1. Marty Trujillo‏ @martyalen 13 Nov 2021
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        Hardly.

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      2. Marginal Notes‏ @oakdesk 13 Nov 2021
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        Dreiser loomed much larger then. Didn't age as well for some reason.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2021
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        Trilling was one of the reasons.

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      1. John Shreffler‏ @johnshreffler0 13 Nov 2021
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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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      1. A. K. Boo‏ @AKKABlue 15 Nov 2021
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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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