The Augustan Age The Rise of the Novel

Raffaele Nardella

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Features of the 18th century novels1. Simple way of writing to be understood2. Realism in the way life was shown3. Hero, a bourgeois man, mouthpiece of the

author4. Contemporary names of characters struggling

for survival or social success5. Chronological sequence6. Particular times7. Attention to the setting8. Narrator never abandoned his characters9. Story appealing to the tradesman10. Reward and Punishment Puritan ethics of

middle classes

Raffaele Nardella