ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Eudora Welty, Jane Austen, Sally Lockhart
11 Jan 2017
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Contrasts romance of earlier ages with fiction of his age. The former is purely fanciful, the latter is concerned with observing the contemporary world as it is. Means that fiction is better suited to didacticism: teaches morality in ways that are directly applicable to readers" lives. Two eighteenth-century writers attempt to give the novel intellectual respectability. Samuel richardson, pamela: or, virtue rewarded (1740), clarissa: or the history of a young. Henry fielding, joseph andrews (1742), tom jones (1749), amelia (1751) Novels written tended to be romantic in terms of structure, with the exception of clarissa which was a tragedy. Concerned with gaining or regaining a social identity. In this generic sense, northanger abbey is also a romance. But this is not what johnson, austen, and contemporaries would have called romance. Romance to them entailed the setting, atmosphere, and types of events portrayed. Opposite of realism, similar to escapist fiction.
