ROMANTIC FICTION
The novel
18th century
The most popular form of fiction
interest in individual
THE NOVEL OF MANNERS
• rise of middle class
• everyday situations
• manners and social behaviour
• country life
• main themes: love, marriage, friendship
• third person narrator
• irony
THE HISTORICAL NOVEL
• Napoleonic Wars
• interest in the past, especially Middle Ages
• history seen as a product of human decisions
based on the lives of ordinary people
• interest in important historical crisis
for example in Scotland
"Waverley"
"Ivanhoe"
Features:
• deeper insight
• description of social classes
• self-realization
•dialogue as a way to knowledge of life