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Updated: July 15, 2025
Such reasons as presented themselves have been given for the fact that nearly half of the whole period passed before the two systems of the pure novel and the novel-romance were discovered: and even then they were not at once put to work. But the present writer would be the very first to confess that these explanations leave a great deal unexplained.
Few better atmospheres could be even imagined for the combined novel-romance the story which, while it did not exclude the adventurous or even the supernatural in one sense, insisted on the rational in another, and opened its doors as wide as possible to every subject, or combination of subjects, that would undertake to be interesting.
Not till Vanity Fair did the novel of pure real life advance its standard once more: while the historical novel-romance of a new kind may date its revival with though it should scarcely trace that revival to Esmond, or Westward Ho! or both.
It has been hinted at already, perhaps more than once, but has not been brought out. This is the enormous range of suggestion in Fielding the innumerable doors which stand open in his ample room, and lead from it to other chambers and corridors of the endless palace of Novel-Romance.
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