08176. DEMOCRACY AND THE NOVEL: THE EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRACY AND THE PUBLIC READING TASTE AS REFLECTED IN THREE AMERICAN AND THREE BRITISH NOVELS. Encroachment of democratic principles into the scope, style and characters of novels by Fielding, Dickens and Forester in England and Hawthorne, Twain and Bellow in America is extensively traced and analyzed. The movement away from the classic literary tradition and its symbolism and towards journalistic realism and realistic dialogue is perceived as resulting from changing work occupation and education of the reader as well as political and social responses to changing views on class and ethnic divisions. 34 pages, 81 footnotes, 6 bibliographic sources.