EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: An Apology For The Life Of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, Pangs, Free Indirect Speech
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Invented in the 18th century, the novel became a very popular, best-selling genre. Disparaged for not being high literature, and appealing to female readers. Authors from a wide cross-section of the middle classes. Reflects influence of middle class readership, including women. Because of the middle class authors and audience, novel shows great concerns with money, class status and social mobility. Buying and selling, shopping dress and fashion. Acquisition and accumulation of wealth and property. Narratives or wish fulfillment, take delight in telling readers about money, status objects. Reveal and critique social climbing (and falling), class pretensions, imitating upper class behaviors. Realism: writing style associated with the novel (cid:0) Realism is a set of narrative procedures, conventions for describing and referring term first applied to painting to the material world. It is not reality and not about things being realistic. Probability belongs to logic; how humans perceive reality belongs to epistemology two fields of philosophy, not literary studies.