The Emergence Of Novelistic Discourse In English Literature
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The Emergence Of Novelistic Discourse In English Literature
The aim of the present paper is to reappraise some of the theories on the emergence of the novel in eighteenthcentury England and to try to identify the point of convergence between the views according to which this literary species was the outcome of a gradual transformation of the epic discourse into novelistic discourse and the ones stressing the fact that its emergence owed mainly to the increase in readership following the Reformation and the subsequent demand, among readers, for ever more plausible life stories.
Keywords: epic, novel, middle classes, Protestantism, prescriptive realism
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