...Moliere, wielding his artificial medium, has told to us and to all time of Alceste or Orgon, Doiine or Chrysale. The historical novel is forgotten. Yet...none the less veracious ; but if you be weak, you run 268 the risk of being tedious and inexpressive; and if you be very strong and honest, you may chance...

...is both realistic and ideal; and the realism about which we quarrel is a matter purely_of_externals. It is no especial cultus of nature and veracity, but...as you please, you will be none the less veracious; '-mt if you be weak, you run the risk of being . edious and inexpressive ; and if you be very strong...

..."Troilus and Cressida" which Shakespeare, in a spasm of unmanly anger with the world, grafted on the 40 heroic story of the siege of Troy. This question of...you be weak, you run the risk of being tedious and inex45 pressive; and if you be very strong and honest, you may chance upon a masterpiece. [. . .] To...

...decadent aesthetic form: in "A Note on Realism," he writes, "This question of realism, let it be then clearly understood, regards not in the least degree...but only the technical method, of a work of art." By focusing on style and method, Stevenson shifts the ground of the debate about reo 1 o alism from...

...interrogation. To Henry James, realism had "myriad forms" (James [1884] 1985: 201) and to Stevenson it regarded "not in the least degree the fundamental truth, but only the technical method of a work of art" (Stevenson [1883] 1950: 378). Barrie's work was judged by most of his contemporaries to have fulfilled...