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Rise of the novel 2
AIM OF THE NOVELIST and OF THE NOVEL
novelist was the spokesman of the middle class
directed to a bourgeois public
new plots
traditional plots – taken from history, legend and mythology – were abandoned
writer’s primary aim:
write in simple way in order to be understood
bookseller rewarded
speed and copiousness became the most important economic virtues
Daniel defoe and samuel richardson fathers of english novel
novel was concerned with everything that coul affect social status
THE CHARACTERS
writer aimed at realism
tried to portray different human experiences
bourgeois man
his problems
well defined and hero
mouthpiece of his author
reader expected to sympathise him
contemporary names for the realism
message of the novel
story appealing to the practical-minded tradesman (self reliant)
The sense of reward and punishment was the message
characters struggled either for survival or social success
the former by who believed in reason
Robinson Crusoe
the latter by who could not control their passions
Moll Flanders