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Since the times of the Greeks and Romans
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It concerned love problems or
had a holy and spiritual purpose.
The
17th Century
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They were called French Romances [not considered as Novel]
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They were to do with brave
battles, spiritual quests and love.
The
18th Century
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The appearance of the Novel
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First Novel Robinson Crusoe 1719 by Daniel Defoe
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The stories mixed facts with fiction
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They were called Realistic stories [Realism]
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They are both literary pieces of work
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The Novel is descendant of the
Romance
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Realism: a
novel that reflects the life of a normal middle class main character, that goes
through normal, day-to-day problems, like survival on a daily basis. E.g. buying
food and the likes. Robinson
Crusoe, Moll Flanders.
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Gothic Romance:
a
sort of novel that has a center gloomy idea and the intense feeling of fear,
anguish and terror, where the central characters aren’t your common daily
characters you see on the street or at your place of work. E.g. Vampires, Dracula,
Frankenstein.
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Satire:
a genre of
the novel, where the writer writes something mocking or attacking something
important, with the intention of wanting to make it better. It is written in an
ironic style because the writer says something and wants the opposite to happen.
E.g. going to war for the silliest reasons. Gulliver’s Travels
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Epistolary: novels
in a first person narrative in an on going letter chronicle system. The whole
book is made up of a series of letters, memorandums, journals and the likes. It
brings excitement to the story since you feel like it’s happening all around
you at the moment. E.g. Jonathan writing to his wife, but suddenly stopping
because Dracula just entered the room. Pamela. Dracula.