English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… unsociability which contributed to the development of the novel. Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Mots-clés Antagonism Conflict Fiction Parody Rivalry If Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books (1704), which depicted a literal … process of the new literary form during the first half of the eighteenth century was marked however by a spirit of antagonism and resistance. From the outset, the eighteenth-century novel displayed a subversive purpose, expressed … of those considered as the founders of the genre in England. These conflictual manifestations – taking the form of antagonism and of textual, rather than physical, confrontation – appear rather unifying, paradoxically: they constitute …
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