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THE RISE OF THE NOVEL :star: - Coggle Diagram
THE RISE OF THE NOVEL
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the fathers of the English novel are
Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson
the novel was mainly directed to a bourgeois public
plots taken from history, legend and mythology were abandoned
the writer's primary aim was no longer to satisfy the standards of patrons and the literary elite but
to write in a simple way in order to be understood
speed and copiousness became the most importan economic virtues
the message of the novel
was appealing to the practical-minded tradesman, who was
self-made and self-reliant
the sense of reward (
new rich people
) and punishment (
providence
) was related to the Puritan ethics of middle classes (
pray, hard work and duty
)
the subject of the novel was always the
bourgeois man
, a well-defined character and the hero of the narrative
the reader was expected to sympathise with him
like Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
the fact that characters were given contemporary names and surnames was something new and served to give the
impression of realism
THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE
third-person narrator, who was
omniscent
first-person narrator who, was the
main character
in the story (REALISM)
chronological sequence of events in a
temporal dimension in a particular time
(year, day, month etc)
action happened in a
time and place
with detailed descriptions that helped to render the narrative even more realistic
TYPES OF NOVELS
the
epistolary novel
(Richardson's
Pamela
)
the
utopian novel
(Jonathan Swift's
Gulliver's Travels
) satirise contemporary English society
the
picaresque novel
(Henry Fieldings) of a young hero w misfortunes and has to escape these situations using his wit
the
realistic novel
(Daniel Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe
focused on realistic descriptions of time and place)
the
anti-novel
(
Tristan Shandy
) not linked to a logical sequence of events (hint to future cinema)