40. The Novel Flashcards
(57-60) (28 cards)
What can you say about novel and fiction?
It becomes popular, dominant, even though it was thought to be inferior by critics before, for over a century.
What did the English think of themselves?
They thought to be superior than any of outlandish behavior.
What was the audience for novels? What can you say about its morality/topics?
Read mostly by women of upper-middle class and upper class. They consist of new morality covering male/female relationships, figures of authority, needs, desires, fantasies.
Who’s the father and who’s the mother of novel?
Daniel Defoe and Aphra Behn.
What did Aphra Behn write about? What’s her one of the most important works?
She wrote about slavery, corruption, women’s rights. “The New Atlantis” is one of the important works of hers about rape, incest and homosexuality.
What did Daniel Defoe think about authorities and society?
He approved authority. Society - newly ordered whole (Moll Flanders turning from a thief to someone improved as she was accepted back into society).
What are Crusoe’s beliefs? Does he… convert anyone?
He’s a Christian. He converts Friday to Christianity.
What is Friday victim of?
Colonisation.
Defoe is against (1)___.
(1) money
What’s Jonathan Swift’s stance towards authority?
He mocked it (Gulliver’s Travels).
Mandevile’s (1)____ were used as a vehicle for political satire.
(1) exotic joke
What can you say about the peculiar parts of “Gulliver’s Travels”? Who’s its author?
Written by Jonathan Swift. The third part is about satire on institutions/schools. The fourth part is about satire on mankind (comparing it to Yahoos/monkeys).
In what sense was “Gulliver’s Travels” dismissed?
It was considered as a fantastic comedy, its satire was blunted.
What else beside novels did Jonathan Swift write? What was he mostly writing about?
He also wrote political pamphlets. He was mostly criticizing faults and hypocrisies of his age.
What can you say about Samuel Richardson?
He went from poverty to a prosperous printer. He published books of advice and a major 18th cen. epistolary novel “Pamela”.
What’s “Pamela” about?
About male dominance and female restrain, submission.
Who is known for his parody of “Pamela”?
Henry Fielding by his “Shamela”.
What new did epistolary novels bring? Recall examples.
POV appeared. In Pamela we have one and in Clarissa we have 4 POVs.
Who did Samuel Johnson favour?
Richardson.
Who was Henry Fielding? What did he focus on?
He’s a satiric dramatist. He focuses more on male characters and manners.
What’s POV effect?
It can manipulate readers’ reactions to immoral behaviour.
Who moves epistolary form further? Into what? What’s its impact?
Henry Fielding. He forms comic epics in prose. It led many major comic novelists of the early Victorian age.
What could you say about the female writers? Were they popular?
No. Even though there were more women novelists and readers than males.
What can you say about David Simple?
It’s a character of Sarah Fielding, future model character who just wants to make friends.
