PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: The Daily Courant, Aphra Behn, Laurence Sterne
9 Aug 2020
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The long eighteenth century: prose: popular culture: narrating sex & crime", ballads, prose accounts, learning, prose satire, narrative prose: the rise of the novel", popular culture: narrating sex & crime" terms: broadsheet", chapbook. Telling stories is as old as humanity is. Here: texts that really want to tell stories. Popular addressing to this wide audience in the 18th century it has to do with sex & crime. We didn"t know the author popular it is meant to be read & enjoyed by many, many people. Many of the ballads got lost (not printed in high quality) Many topics, often connected with the news (sensational news) , sex & crime: prose accounts. What you get in ballade form- you also get in prose form. Writing / invent / making stories up about (fact & fiction) about crime cases. Alle bilder sind aus den folien zur vorlesung: learning. Importance" of fiction around 1700: c. 7 % of lit. prod.
