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History of the English Novel
Pride and Predudice
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12th Grade
11/04/2008

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Novvels are derived f/...
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Epic tales and romances like Morte d Arthur
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The word novel in French mean
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new. (relatively newer work of fiction)
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English novel appeared during the 18th cen when Daniel Defoe published
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Robinson Crusoe (other writers followed w/ novels depicting life in the English countryside)
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these novvels were written in _________ in the form of ________ written to _______
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1. 1st person, 2. letters, 3. parents
~Topic was to promote the cause of religion and virtue. . novel PAMELA was one of the most popular of these novels.
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Tom Jones by Henry Fieldings ...
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was disgusted w/ the sentimentality and moralizing of these early novels and wrote novels just the oppisite, poking fun at religion. and virtue
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Out of the 18th century comes ____ and ____
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quantity and variety. now they can be grouped in many ways such as by 1. period, 2. subject, 3. technique 4. literary movements
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Novels of the 18th cen were called ____ of _____
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novels of manners. (these ovels the struggle of the main character is to find self knowledge w/ reguard to others or in love and marriage, fmaily friends even the working world... quest for spiritual knowledge)
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Novels were 1st published in ____ in pop magazines
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installments. so novels appear in "episodic"in style
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Historical novels like Sir Walter Scott's _____, and JAmes Fennimore Coopers's _____ _______.
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Ivanhoe, The leather stockings.
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gothic novels like mary shlly's _______, and Anne Radcliffe's ___ ____ __ ______
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1. Frankenstien, The Mysteries of udolpho
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Historical novels deal w/ ...
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romanic view of past
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gothic novels are tales of the ___________,________, delathing w/ _________ of a ___________ woman
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supernatural, death and the grotesque, often dealing w/ the death of a beautiful women. new interest in science sparked the gothic idea
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jane austen wrote, _____ and __________, ____________, _________ and _________
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Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Pride and Predudice. She concerned herselve w/ the lives of the upper middle class and genteel landownsers. known for detailed portrayal of characters.
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jane austen influences other _______ _________
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great novelists
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The Victorian Age: w/ Charles Dickens. he was insterested in portraying ppl of ________ ____ _______ ... and he used novels to protest abuses brought about by the __________ __________
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his own time. hew as interesetd in economic and social reform. ... he used novels to protest abuses brought about by the Industrial Revolution. these novels are called "NOVELS OF PURPOSE"
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cHARLES dICKENS WROTE, ____- _______, _____- _________, _____ ________, ______ ___________.
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Great Expectations, Davis Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickelby.
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Another type of novel developed during the Victorian Age is the _________ novel
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psychoological . the author analyzes the motives of the characters and solves problems in human relationships.
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Psychological novels: George Eliot's _________ _________, Joseph Conrad's _____ __ __________ , and Thomas Hardy's ________ ____- ________
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George Eliot's Silas Marner, Joseph Cnrad's Heart of Darkness and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
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