Quotes/Essays from writers who are for and against moralism/sentimentality/didacticism in literature?
Basically, I want writers who have written for/against sentimentality and didacticism in literature. I have already read Tolstoy's "What is Art?" which is for simple, moralistic stories. There is also James Baldwin's essay "everybody's protest novel" which criticises the sentimental strain in American protest novels and I have Nabokov's lectures on Doestoevsky which harshly criticises him as a sentimentalist.
Any more essays to be aware of?
u/Usual-Buyer-6467 — 10 days ago