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    Bartholomew Dandridge, A Lady reading Belinda beside a fountain, 1745.

    Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

    The rise of the novel

    The novel

    1. The rise of the novel


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

    the growing importance of the middle class

    the individuals trust in his own abilities

    the practice of reason and selfanalysis

    Most readers were middle-class women

    They used to borrow books from circulating libraries

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

    The mouthpiece of the author

    The reader is expected to sympathise with him

    All the characters

    had contemporary names and surnames

    struggled for survival or social success

    Robinson Crusoe
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    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


    more realistic
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    6. The narrative technique


    1ST-PERSON NARRATOR
    Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift Samuel Richardson

    3RD-PERSON NARRATOR

    PATTERN

    Fictional autobiographies Letters exchanged between the main characters Henry Fielding The mock-epic style

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    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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