specializing the artist, artists themselves were seeking to 
generalize their skills into the common property of imaginative 
truth.” (p. 43) This can be seen in the Romantics who, 
discovering their inability to talk to conscious men, began by 
myth and symbol to address the unconscious levels of dream 
life. The imaginative reunion with tribal man was scarcely a 
voluntary strategy of culture.

     One of the most radical of new literary conventions of the 
market society of the eighteenth century was the novel. It had 
been preceded by the discovery of “equitone prose.” Addison 
and Steele, as much as anybody else, had devised this novelty 
of maintaining a single consistent tone to the reader. It was 
the auditory equivalent of the mechanically fixed view in vision. 
Mysteriously, it is this breakthrough into equitone prose which 
suddenly enabled the mere author to become a “man of