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    The rise of the novel saw the genre develop out of the growing middle class and increasing literacy in the 18th century. Certain novelists like Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding helped establish the realistic, sentimental, and mock-epic styles of the English novel. These early novelists aimed to widely communicate moral lessons to middle-class readers in a simple yet realistic style that portrayed everyday life, characters, and settings of the time.

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    The rise of the novel saw the genre develop out of the growing middle class and increasing literacy in the 18th century. Certain novelists like Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding helped establish the realistic, sentimental, and mock-epic styles of the English novel. These early novelists aimed to widely communicate moral lessons to middle-class readers in a simple yet realistic style that portrayed everyday life, characters, and settings of the time.

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    The rise of the novel saw the genre develop out of the growing middle class and increasing literacy in the 18th century. Certain novelists like Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding helped establish the realistic, sentimental, and mock-epic styles of the English novel. These early novelists aimed to widely communicate moral lessons to middle-class readers in a simple yet realistic style that portrayed everyday life, characters, and settings of the time.

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    The rise of

    the novel
    Bartholomew Dandridge, A Lady reading
    Belinda beside a fountain, 1745. Yale
    Center for British Art, New Haven
    The novel

    1. The rise of the novel


    The increase of the reading public in the Augustan Age was due to

    the growing the individual’s the practice of


    importance trust in his own reason and self-
    of the middle class abilities analysis

    Most readers were They used to borrow books


    middle-class women from circulating libraries

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    The novel

    2. The novelist

    • The spokesman of the middle class.

    • The fathers of the English novel:

    • Daniel Defoe  the realistic novel


    • Samuel Richardson  the sentimental novel
    • Henry Fielding  the mock-epic novel
    • Jonathan Swift  the satirical novel

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    The novel

    3. The novelist’s aim

    • To be understood widely  he wrote in a simple way.

    • Realism  not only linked to the life presented, but to the


    way it was shown.

    • Speed and copiousness  his most important economic


    virtues since it was the bookseller and not the patron who
    rewarded him.

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    The novel

    4. The characters
    A bourgeois, self-made,
    The Hero self-reliant man

    The mouthpiece The reader is expected


    of the author to sympathise with him

    had contemporary struggled for


    All the names and survival or social
    characters surnames  success
    Robinson Crusoe

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    The novel

    5. The setting
    • Chronological sequence of events

    • References to particular times of the year or of the day

    “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York”


    (Robinson Crusoe)

    • Specific names of towns and streets

    • Detailed descriptions of interiors  to make the narrative


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    more realistic
    The novel

    6. The narrative technique


    1ST-PERSON 3RD-PERSON PATTERN
    NARRATOR NARRATOR

    Daniel Defoe Fictional


    Jonathan Swift autobiographies

    Samuel Letters
    Richardson exchanged
    between the main
    characters
    Henry Fielding The mock-epic
    style

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    The novel

    7. Themes

    1. Real life

    2. Everything that could affect social status

    3. The sense of reward and punishment  linked to the Puritan


    ethics of the middle class

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