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ROMANTIC FICTION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - conflict between AMBITIONS and the REQUIREMENTS of society
      - relationship between SOCIAL CLASSES
      - the character's SELF-REALISATION
      - the development of DIALOGUE to bring the characters to life
- - - - Premise: there is a vital relationship among
        
        social behaviour
        
        character
        
        manners
      - Setting:
        
        upper and middle classes
        
        in the country
      - Topic:
        
        Description of visits, balls, teas to describe conventions of daily behaviour
        
        Exploration of personal relationships and class distinctions
        
        Influence of money and property on the way people treat others
        
        Themes: marriage, the complication of love and friendship
      - Technique:
        
        third-person narrator
        
        central role of dialogue, vehicle for irony
        
        subtle expression of passions and emotions
- - - - Waverley (1814)
      - Ivanhoe (1819)
    - - History as PRODUCT OF HUMAN DECISIONS rather than just a list of events
      - history based on the lives of ORDINARY PEOPLE rather than on those of kings
      - interest in how historical crises caused PROBLEMS IN INDIVIDUALS
    - - the past of SCOTLAND mixed with imaginative adventures
    - - FIGURATIVE language mixed with DIALECT
    - - He greatly influenced Alessandro Manzoni and his The Betrothed (1827)
        
        they both:
        
        set their novels in historical contexts to point out the political and cultural conflicts between Scotland and England (the former), Lombardy and Spain (the latter)
        
        mingled historical truths and fiction
        
        they used different linguistic means
        
        Scott: extensive use of SCOTTISH DIALECT
        
        Aim: celebrating the glorious past of Scotland and its independence from England
        
        Manzoni: removed any regional inflections
        
        Aim: creating a NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
- - - - short story writer
    - - created the first EPIC OF THE FRONTIER