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THE RISE OF THE NOVEL (18th century) - Coggle Diagram
THE RISE OF THE NOVEL (18th century)
Fathers of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Richardson
spokesmen of the
middle-class
directed to a bourgeois public
Aim
History and mythology abandoned
to write in a simple way for less-educated readers
the bookseller rewarded the writer (importance of speed)
Message of the novel
sense of reward and punishment related to the Puritan ethics of the middle classes
CHARACTERS
the bourgeois man with contemporary and realistic names, struggling for
survival
Robinson Crusoe
social success
Moll Flanders
Narrative technique
omnipresent writer
third- or first-person narrator
temporal references to times of the year or of the day
Setting
specific references to names of streets and towns
detailed descriptions of the interiors
TYPES OF NOVELS
EPISTOLARY
told through letters exhanged between characters
Samuel Richardson's
Pamela
PICARESQUE
episodic, the adventures of a young hero, misfortunes and wit
Henry Fielding's
Tom Jones
UTOPIAN
imaginary places to satirise contemporary English society
Jonathan Swift's
Gulliver's Travels
ANTI-NOVEL
fragmentary events and overlapping plots to describe the life of the character and the disorder of the human mind
Lawrence Sterne's
Tristram Shandy
REALISTIC
realistic descriptions of time and place
Daniel Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe