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The rise of the novel - Coggle Diagram
The rise of the novel
The historical context
The Augustan Age
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- Liberal thought and free will
- Optimism which encouraged faith in progress
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- Conceptions of balance and symmetry
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The Setting
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Specific references to name of town, countries and streets
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The characters
The HERO
the hero is a realistic, self made, self-reliant, bourgeois man
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The Others characters
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They can be:
Flat
Stereotyped, always the same without changes
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The novelist
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Their aim:
To be understood by everyone, writing in a simple way
Realism in the stories, to reflect the real life
Speed and copiousness, they had to be fast in writing because people were reading so much and the had to be rewarded by the bookseller
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