the rise of the novel- enlightenment

• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Enlightenment

-The rise of the novel-

Rise of the middle class

• growing influence of the middle class reading public 
• land
• industrial revolution
• high degree of education and training
• down-to-earth lifestyle
• David Daiches

land was the only source of wealth in the 17th and 18th century

1. True
2. False

Who were the early novelists?

1. Middle class men
2. Nobility
3. Aristocracy
4. All of the above

features of the early novel

1. moral
2. realistic 

Robinson Crusoe

• Daniel Defoe
• shipwrecked sailor
• friday
• true stroies based on fact
• perfect bussinessman
• capitalism
• optimistic view on mankind 
• virtue vs money

"production is more important than consumption"

1. communism
2. capitalism

Jonathan Swift

• 1667 till 1754
• social injustices
• radical solution
• Gulliver's travels
• pessimistic view on mankind 

What kind of view had Swift on mankind

1. optimistic
2. pessimistic

sources:

1. https://valmcbeath.com/victorian-era-middle-classes/#.YVMb2y1h200
2. https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/social-and-family-life-in-the-late17th-early-18th-centuries/
3. https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935338-e-007
4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/middle_classes_01.shtml
5. https://edurev.in/question/518550/Which-social-groups-emerged-in-the-18th-century-a-
6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44613439
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