Shaping the Verisimilitude: Moral Didacticism and Neoclassical Principles Responsible for the Rise of the English Novel?

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  • Petru Golban Namik Kemal University

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https://doi.org/10.33182/bc.v6i2.491

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The rise of the English novel, verisimilitude, neoclassicism, ethical didacticism, picaresque.

Abstract

The rise of the novel is a major aspect of the eighteenth century British literature having a remarkable typology: picaresque, adventure, epistolary, sentimental, of manners, moral, comic, anti-novel. The comic (including satirical) attitude, social concern, moral didacticism, and other thematically textualized aspects – emerging from both picaresque tradition and neoclassical principles – and together with picaresque tradition and neoclassical principles – are responsible for the emergence of verisimilitude as the forming element responsible in turn for the rise of the literary system of the novel.

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Published

2016-08-17

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Golban, P. (2016) “Shaping the Verisimilitude: Moral Didacticism and Neoclassical Principles Responsible for the Rise of the English Novel?”, Border Crossing. London, UK, 6(2), pp. 195–218. doi: 10.33182/bc.v6i2.491.

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