ROMANTIC FICTION

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ROMANTIC FICTION

The novel 18th century

Features:

• deeper insight • description of social classes • self-realization •dialogue as a way to knowledge of life

The most popular form of fiction

interest in individual

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

"Ivanhoe"

"Waverley"

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