THE RISE OF THE NOVEL

(1660-1731)

Journalist, Pamphleteer, Dissenter

Life events

Presbyterian minister

Involved in politics

articles in support of the new king

Production

The Ture-born Englishman

The shortest way with dissenters

The review (a newspaper)

Robinson Crusoe

Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, Journal of the plague year, Roxana

Literary genre

father of the modern novel

the figure of a single hero and his destiny is at the centre of the story and in which we try to respect the criteria of coherence and verisimilitude

adventurous style, 1person narrator

themes

White man burden

survival

shipwreck

(1667-1745)

Misanthropist, Satirist

Life events

Employment as a secretary for the English staseman

Anglican minister

task of editing and publishing Willliam Temple's memoirs

Production

A Tale of a Tub

The Battle of the Books

Travels into Several Remote Nationsof the World, in four parts

Gulliver's Travels

Modest Proposal

Literary genre

Satirical portrait of the political situation

Irony

hatred of mankind

first-person point of view to estabilish a direct relationship with the reader

humor

utopian novel

themes

poverty in Ireland

cannibalism

disgust towards others

(1689-17619

Life events

apprentice to a printer

Business activity

with the financial security which enabled him to write his own novels

Production

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Clarissa Harlowe

Sir Charles Grandison

Literary genre

Epistolary novel

explore the psychology of the characters

themes

exchange of letters between the protagonist and several of her correspondents

misadventures and hardship of a servant girl

self-respect and virtue