Oh, Mr James, don't you just know everything

  imagine a literature 
  of power without force

               The very claim of the fable is naturally 

               that he is special, that his great gift 

               makes and keeps him highly exceptional; 

               but that is not for a moment supposed to 

               preclude his appearing typical (of the 

               general type) as well; for the fictive 

               hero successfully appeals to us only as 

               an eminent instance, as eminent as we like, 

               of our own conscious kind.

Henry James

Preface to the

  New York Edition

Roderick Hudson

1874-1875 in serial,

  The Atlantic Monthly

Tbe Art of the Novel

op. cit.