But every writer, especially every novelist, has a “message”, whether he admits it or not, and the minutest details of his work are influenced by it. All art is propaganda. Neither Dickens himself nor the majority of Victorian novelists would have thought of denying this. On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
“Charles Dickens,” Inside the Whale (1940)
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See Sinclair.