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calculating business man who used this principle at every turn,
in production and distribution, fought its logic of centralism
with anarchic bitterness. So Lowenthal observes in Literature
and the Image of Man (pp. 41­2):
Very quickly after the downfall of feudalism, the
literary artist developed a liking for figures who look at
society not from the viewpoint of a participant but from
the vantage point of an outsider. The further these
figures are removed from the affairs of society, the
greater is likely to be their social failure (which is almost,
but not quite, a tautology); they are also more prone, as
a result, to display unspoiled, uninhibited, and highly
individual characteristics. The conditions—whatever they
may be—that remove them from the affairs of society are
viewed as the conditions that bring them closer to their