Development of the Novel Flashcards
1
Q
Ian Watts
A
Rise of middle class, demand for “ease of entertainment”
Importance of Enlightenment idea of ‘truth to individual experience’
2
Q
Bahktin
A
Times of hetereoglossia/language interaction
[e.g Greco-Roman interaction]
3
Q
Taine
A
Novel as ‘part of civilising project’, and C18th Protestantism
4
Q
Bellamy
A
By economic analysis, the C18th ‘contest between public and private morality’ emerged and the ‘novel became the grounds upon which it was fought’
5
Q
McKeon
A
Novel emerged to ‘mediate the revolutionary clash between status and class relations…give form to the crisis by organising it into a conflict of completing interpretation’
