The Rise of the Novel

The rise of the novel: Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

They are English; they roughly plump to the same time (XVIII century).
Rise of the novel means that a new literary genre was born.
Ian Watt, Le origini del romanzo borghese => introduction of the member novel and middle-class novel: the rise of the novel is attached to the rise of the middle-class.
It is called novel to stress the novelty of the new literary genre, because its new.
Its different from The birth of the tragedy by Nietzsche: he tries to find the origin of the tragedy, its so obsolescent we cannot really fix it. The same would be for poetry: as far as we know, it has been with us.
What is novel? We take it for granted because its the commonest way of writing now: if we write, we tend to write in prose.
Romances tend to be associated with magic/associated stories; novels with more realistic ones: attitude, setting, apologue are more realistic. But the 2 explicates go to demandher, even in 1619 when Robinson Crusoe comes out.
* its prose: up to the XVIII century, the keen writers used to write in poetry; prose was used for occasional purposes.
* It has a story.
* It has characters.
* Events and characters are arranged in a plot.




translation of novel by the Oxford English Dictionary:
A fabricated prose narrative or tale of right smart length (now ordinarily one long enough to fill one or more volume), in which characters and actions representative of the real life of noncurrent or present times are portrayed in a plot of more or less complexness.
* fictitious: the etymology brings us back to fingere, that is to invent a story.
* considerable length: it has somehow long (its not a short story); its anything from 80/90 pages upward. Another word which is used is novella from 10/15 pages, up to 80/90 pages.
* Characters are obviously fictitious, but they may be taken from real life: some of them may be real, historical people (for example I Promessi Sposi:...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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