enlightenment- the rise of the novel

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

The enlightenment

-The rise of the novel-

The rise of the middle class 

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

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
• perfect businessman
• capitalism
• true stories
• optimistic view on mankind 

"production is more important than consumption"

1. communism
2. capitalism

Jonathan Swift

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

What kind of view had Swift on mankind

1. pessimistic
2. optimistic

sources:

1. htps://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 

7. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Robinson-Crusoe-novel