Categorieën: Alle - society - libraries - novel

door Ardo Ardi 15 jaren geleden

1990

Augustan Age

The Augustan Age saw a complex societal structure where the urban population lived in poor conditions without political rights. Merchants, who owned mines and manufacturing factories, often married into the aristocracy to gain social prestige.

Augustan Age

AUGUSTAN AGE

THE RISE OF THE NOVEL

MAIN FEATURES
Narrator never abandons his characters
Events are in chronological sequence
All CHARACTERS

Struggle for 'survival' or 'social success'

Realistic

The HERO

readers are expected to sympathise

'mouthpiece' of the author

burgeoise man w/ his problems

Sense of 'reward & punishment' typical of the Puritan Ethics of Middle Class
Write in simple way - understood by everyone
Novelist as 'spokeman' of the middle class
MAIN REASONS
Growing importance of midddle class - influenced development of prose genre
Libraries gain popularity
Increased popular interest in reading

SOCIETY

URBAN POPULATION
No political rights - Live in terrible conditions
MIDDLE CLASS
Strongly influences this age
Its expansion continues in the Augustan Age
Artisans and Craftsmen - work long hours - get little pay
MERCHANTS
Marry into aristocracy to gain prestige
Own mines and manifacturing factories