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The rise of the novel Performer Shaping Ideas Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella, Margaret Layton © 2020  The rise of the novel 1. The Augustan Age The 18th-century key concepts were:...

The rise of the novel Performer Shaping Ideas Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella, Margaret Layton © 2020  The rise of the novel 1. The Augustan Age The 18th-century key concepts were: political stability; individualism; liberal thought and free will; optimism which encouraged faith in progress; reason and common sense; desire for balance, symmetry, refinement could be observed in all the arts. Performer Shaping Ideas  The rise of the novel 2. The reading public The increase of the reading public in the Augustan Age was due to the growing the individual’s the practice importance of the trust in his/her of reason and middle class own abilities self-analysis most readers they used to coffee-houses were borrow books allowed the middle-class from lending or circulation of women circulating news and libraries opinions Performer Shaping Ideas  The rise of the novel 2. The reading public The interest of middle-class people in literature gave rise to journalism the novel The Tatler and The Spectator Where the belief in the power of were the first English reason and the individual’s trust newspapers in his own abilities found Their style  simple, lively expression. Their aim  didactic Performer Shaping Ideas  The rise of the novel 3. 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 (from Robinson Crusoe) specific references to names of countries, towns and streets; detailed descriptions of interiors to make the narrative more realistic. Performer Shaping Ideas  The rise of the novel 4. The narrative technique 1ST-PERSON 3RD-PERSON PATTERN NARRATOR NARRATOR fictional Daniel Defoe autobiographies experiences told in first person by Jonathan Swift the protagonist of the novel the mock-epic Henry Fielding style Performer Shaping Ideas  The rise of the novel 5. The characters The hero a realistic, bourgeois, self-made, self-reliant man the mouthpiece of the the reader is expected to author sympathise with him they struggle All the have contemporary for survival or characters names and surnames: social Robinson Crusoe success Performer Shaping Ideas  The rise of the novel 6. The novelist 1. The spokesman of the middle class. 2. The fathers of the English novel: Daniel Defoe the realistic novel Jonathan Swift the utopian novel Performer Shaping Ideas  The rise of the novel 7. 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. Performer Shaping Ideas  The rise of the novel 8. Themes 1. Real life; 2. everything that could alter a social status; 3. the sense of reward and punishment linked to the Puritan ethics of the middle class. Performer Shaping Ideas