Listening activity

The novel in 18th Century Britain

The most important concepts about the activity that development the novel are: 

concerns with order, reason, method

rise of science

restoration of monarchy

Enlightenment values

political modernization

emerging British empire

nature

experimental

novel genres: prose, prosaic epistolary, diary, descriptive, comedies of manners, horror….

form: non-dramatic, non-heroic protagonists, narrator character, personal point of view

contemporary content

new audiences

women can became writers, readers or subjects

personal  novel

classic literary canon: epic, tragedy and poetry