English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… Abstract This entry demonstrates how some of the very first novelists contributed, individually and collectively, whether consciously or inadvertently, to the rise of the new … debate between the ‘Ancients’ and the ‘Moderns’, the literary ‘battle’ which subsequently opposed four major English novelists during the 1720s and the 1740s marked the beginnings of a new literary form, ulteriorly designated as … The battle of the genres: romance vs. novel A great number of literary critics and scholars situate the emergence of the English novel during the long eighteenth century, within a more or less narrow time frame; they do however appreciate the …
Antagonism | Conflict | Fiction | Parody | Rivalry
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