A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
B. a Puritanical distrust of fiction and a thirst for trivia
C. the forbiddingly high cost of three-volume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relative- tic sense that every opinion was of equal value
