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    The rise of the novel in the 18th century was influenced by several social and economic factors. The Industrial Revolution created a middle class with more leisure time to read novels that depicted everyday life. Advances in printing made books more widely available. The decline of drama and rise of realism as a literary style also contributed to the growing popularity of the novel form. Novels emerged as a new genre that focused on individual experiences rather than groups, reflecting the increasing value placed on individualism during this period. Key early English novels that helped establish the form include Robinson Crusoe, Pamela, and Tom Jones.

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    The rise of the novel in the 18th century was influenced by several social and economic factors. The Industrial Revolution created a middle class with more leisure time to read novels that depicted everyday life. Advances in printing made books more widely available. The decline of drama and rise of realism as a literary style also contributed to the growing popularity of the novel form. Novels emerged as a new genre that focused on individual experiences rather than groups, reflecting the increasing value placed on individualism during this period. Key early English novels that helped establish the form include Robinson Crusoe, Pamela, and Tom Jones.

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    The rise of the novel in the 18th century was influenced by several social and economic factors. The Industrial Revolution created a middle class with more leisure time to read novels that depicted everyday life. Advances in printing made books more widely available. The decline of drama and rise of realism as a literary style also contributed to the growing popularity of the novel form. Novels emerged as a new genre that focused on individual experiences rather than groups, reflecting the increasing value placed on individualism during this period. Key early English novels that helped establish the form include Robinson Crusoe, Pamela, and Tom Jones.

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    The Rise of the Novel

    Introduction

    The rise of the Novel means that there was an increased release of novels
    during the 18th century.

    The historical and social background of the 18th Century

    It is possible to say that the novel as a literary genre emerged in the


    beginning of the eighteenth century. The industrial revolution can be said,
    paved the way to the rise of the novel and it also created a demand for
    people’s desire for reading subjects related to their everyday
    experiences. The novel, therefore, developed as a piece of prose fiction
    that presented characters in real-life events and situations.
    The industrial Revolution changed the lives of people in the 18th century.
    England was a purely rural and agricultural society in the middle ages. People
    lived and worked at farms, their entire life was limited to farming the fields.
    There was no other ambitions, no further interests. Before The Industrial
    Revolution there was * No transportation * No communication * No hospitals*
    No machines * No universities.
    Effects of the Industrial Revolution:

    * It made it easier for people to get in touch.


    * It made means of transportation, travelling, and exploration easier.
    * It created more resources of knowledge like books and magazines.
    * A new generation of writers dreamed of becoming more natural and
    spontaneous in expressing themselves in literature.
    All features of the age (geographical expansion, scientific discoveries, the clash
    between science and religion) led to individualism.
    Individualism: The Typical Feature of the Age
    Individualism stresses "the moral worth of the individual".
    - Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and so value
    independence and self-reliance while opposing most external interference upon
    one's own interests, whether by society, family or any other group or institution.
    - Most works of art written in that age talked about individuals rather than about
    groups of people. Examples are Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, and Oliver
    Twist.
    Reasons for the rise of the novel:

    - The novel was established as a literary form in England in the 18th century
    through the work of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding.
    Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Henry
    Fielding’s Tom Jones are some of early English novels.

    1. The Social Environment: The Rise of the Middle Classes in Western


    Europe. The 18th century in England social history is characterized by the rise
    of the middle class. Because of tremendous growth in trade and commerce, the
    England merchant class was becoming wealthy and this newly rich class wanted
    to excel in the field of literature also. In addition, Middle class had a plenty of
    leisure time to spend.
    Thus, social and economic changes brought the novel into popular prominence.

    2. The Ascendency of Realism: The 18th-century literature was characterized


    by the spirit of realism. Romantic features like enthusiasm, passion,
    imaginations, etc. were declined in this period.
    3. The Decline of Drama in the eighteenth century was also partly
    responsible for the rise and ascendency of the novel. In the 18th century, drama
    lost the fame that it had in the Elizabethan Age.
    4. The Novel gave more Freedom to the writer than the Drama.

    5. With the increase of literacy, the demand on the reading material


    increased rapidly, among well-to-do women, who were novel readers of the
    time. Thus, theatre was not such convenient form of entertainment but
    novel was due to its large audience and its spread all over the land in country-
    houses.
    6. Advances into the technology of printing made written texts available to a
    growing population of readers.
    7. The Rise of Individualism was also very significant in the emergence of the
    English novel. Watt (1957 ), in his book, Rise of the Novel states that
    Defoe's "fiction" is the first, which presents us with a picture of the individual
    life.

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