English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… century was marked however by a spirit of antagonism and resistance. From the outset, the eighteenth-century novel displayed a subversive purpose, expressed through the stated intention of some writers, pioneers of a new literary craft, to … to the publication of Pamela , and emanates both from a desire to respond to Richardson’s novel and an ambition to play a part on the English literary stage along his contemporaries. In this regard, Claude Rawson states: ‘If Richardson … since they had met at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket during the 1730s, when she was an actress whilst he a prolific playwright) 13 but, also, whom he cannot do without, since his writing and success are intrinsic to the dialogue he …
Antagonism | Conflict | Fiction | Parody | Rivalry
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