What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?

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a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

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a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia

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the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London

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the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

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