English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… 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 air of novelty and innovation that permeated the English literary landscape between the 1720s and the 1740s – a period that witnessed the writing and publication of the works of Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, … object of a grand collective discourse and fostering a sense of an imagined community of writers striving to sever links with past literary forms and traditions stemming from the continent. The view of literature, or rather of the direction …
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