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NOVELS
WHAT MADE NOVELS POSSIBLE?
The romance is based on the middle class because the middle class:
Can read
Wants to be entrateined
Has got money
Has a medium level of culture
Wants to read about them
Wants the reality
Has time and access to books
WHAT ARE 'NOVELS'?
Focuses on realistic characters
Become very important at the end of 18th century
This genre stemmed form the mix of romances and historical tales.
We have, in this genre, two contradictory aspect, fiction and realism.
In Cervantes’ masterpiece Don Quixote.
The first novel of the modernity.
based on the contrast between the protagonist's ideal wored of chivalry and the squalid reality of 17th century spain
Literary conmposition about love and fantasy
Novels became a very important genre in Europe.
The aim of the novels is to educate and to entrateined
A VERSATILE GENRE
Robinson Crusoe
The first english novels
Realistic novels
Focuses on the adventures of an englishman
The realism of Defoe's
Psychological insight
Satire
Historical references
18th-century novels are
Long prose narratives
In this stories are narrated in a chronological order
Realistic people and events
Simple language
The novels became a very popular genre thanks to its versatile nature and flexibility.
types
Memoirs
Fictional autobiografy
Epistolary novel
Letters
Picareque novel
Thirt person
Travels
Adventures
AN INSTRUMENT TO EXPLORE URBAN SCENARIOS
Most of the novels of this age focus on the representation of ‘cities’
The first was Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Can be read as a novel about a man who uses his power to re-create an alternative society.
Moll Flanders
Focuses on the dangers of excessive materialism in urban societies.
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's travels
Is an exploration of different forms of societies.