Rise Of The Novel Flashcards
When did the novel rise?
In the 1700s
What are they usually about?
In the novel the story that is said is fantastic but character environment and actions are realistic, fiction but there are tones and places that resemble real life.
Which class was the novel popular with, and why?
The middle class because the values the books held were similar to that of the middle class values, it was also more convenient and cheaper than going to the theater.
Results of the novel?
Due to a growing middle class with more leisure time to read and money to buy books, the public interest in the human character led to the popularity of autobiographies, biographies, journals, diaries and memoirs.
Why was it invented?
At the beginning of the ‘700 begins to establish a new type of culture, economy, ideology, and therefore literature, which favors the birth of the novel. It was born here in England because it is here there that the industrial revolution began and the bourgeoisie established itself.
What is Robison Crusoe?
This is one of the first novels, about a man trapped on an island, and was thought that this book was actually written by a man named Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel Defoe.
