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    An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
    An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
    An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
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    An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times

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      Title: An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times

      Author: Thomas Hill Green

      Editor: Fred Newton Scott

      Release Date: March 17, 2007 [EBook #20843]

      Language: English

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      Thomas Hill Green

      An Estimate of The Value and Influence of

      Works of Fiction In Modern Times

      Edited With Introduction and Notes

      By

      Fred Newton Scott

      Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan

      George Wahr

      Ann Arbor

      Michigan

      1911

      COPYRIGHT

      Fred Newton Scott

      1911

      THE ANN ARBOR PRESS

      ANN ARBOR, MICH.

      PREFACE

      For a good many years I have used this essay of Green's with an advanced class in the theory of prose fiction. It has worked well. It always arouses discussion, and in doing so it has the great virtue that it imperiously leads the argument away from superficialities and centers it upon fundamentals. Its service as a stimulus to high thinking cannot easily be overestimated. For any student, and especially for one who has known only the unidea'd criticism of fiction so popular today, it is a fine thing to come in contact with a high-minded, sturdy, and uncompromising thinker such as Green is. As Green says of the hearer of tragedy, He bears about him, for a time at least, among the rank vapors of the earth, something of the freshness and fragrance of the higher air. I trust that this reprint, by making the essay more easily accessible than it has been heretofore, will help to raise the grade of student thought and taste and criticism.

      F. N. S.

      University of Michigan

            December 1, 1910.

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Introduction

      I. Principles of Art

      a.    Epic, Drama, and Novel

      b.    Imitation vs. Art

      c.    Nature the Creation of Thought

      d.    The 'Outward' aspect of Nature

      e.    Conquest of Nature by Art

      f.     The Artist as Idealizer

      g.    The Epic

      h.    Tragedy as Purifier of the Passions

      i.     Tragedy the Elevation of Life

      j.     Conditions Favorable to Tragedy

      II. The Novel an Inferior Form of Art

      a.    Beginnings of the Novel

      b.    Characteristics of the Spectator

      c.    The Modern Novel a Reflection of Ordinary Life

      d.    Naturalism vs. Idealism

      e.    Tragedy and the Novel

      f.     The Epic and the Novel

      g.    Poetry and Prose

      h.    The Novel an Incomplete Presentation of Life

      i.     Prudence the Novelist's Highest Morality

      j.     Evil Effects of Novel-reading

      III. True Function of the Novel

      a.    A Widener of Experience

      b.    An Expander of Sympathies

      c.    A Creator of Public Sentiment

      d.    A Leveller of Intellects

      APPENDIX.

      a.    An Appreciation of Green's Essay

      b.    Hegel on the Novel

      INTRODUCTION

      Thomas Hill Green was born in Birkin, Yorkshire, April 7, 1836. His early education was acquired first at home under his father, the rector of Birkin, then at Rugby, where he was sent at the age of fourteen. In 1855 he entered Balliol College, Oxford, and came under the influence of Jowett, afterwards famous as Master of Balliol and translator of Plato. Though he matured early, Green was not a brilliant student. On the contrary, he appeared to be indolent and sluggish. No man, wrote one of his fellow-students in 1862, is driven with greater difficulty to work not to his taste.... He wrote some of the best college essays: he never sent them in on the right day, and might generally be seen on the Monday pondering over essays which every one else had sent in on the Friday night. These traits, however, as it proved later, were the index not of a vagrant mind, but of independence of thought and of preoccupation with weightier matters. To quote again from the tribute of a fellow-student: On everything he said or wrote there was stamped the impress of a forcible individuality, a mind that thought for itself, and whose thoughts had the rugged strength of an original character wherein grimness was mingled with humor, and practical shrewdness with a love for abstract speculation. In the end, his solid qualities of mind and character made so strong an impression upon the University authorities that in 1860 he was elected fellow of Balliol. At the same time he became lecturer on ancient and modern history. Though from the beginning of his student life he had been drawn to an academic career and especially to the study of philosophy, he was now for a period undecided what to make his life-work. At one time he thought of going into journalism in India. In 1864, having accepted a place with the Royal Commission on Middle Class Schools, he prepared a valuable report upon the organization of high schools and their relation to the university. Finally, however, in 1866, his indecision was brought to an end. Obtaining an appointment in that year to a position on the teaching staff of Balliol College, he settled down to the work of a tutor in philosophy. When Jowett was made Master of Balliol, Green became, under him, the responsible manager of the college, performing the manifold small duties of the position with patience, thoroughness, and tact.

      In 1871 he was married to Miss Charlotte Symonds, sister of John Addington Symonds.

      Twice

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