Intro to the Novel
, What is a novel?
• Span and versatility
• Rise of the novel coincides with the rise of the middle class
• ‘Predominant art form of modern bourgeois’ (Lukacs)
• Contemporary golden age of television is praised as ’novelistic’ or ‘Dickensian’, a ce
commitment to the novel
• By 1850, the majority of the population could read
• Increased demand as people wanted to join the culture and access novels
• Name, place, time, space, and style (Watt, The Rise of the Novel)
• Transition of the novel from ‘trash’ to literature (is the same happening with gaming?
• The ‘twenty months, in 1847 and 1848’ are the ‘decisive’ months in the novel’s critic
rise (Williams, The English Novel)
• Paratext is the way ‘by which a text makes a book of itself and proposes itself as suc
its readers and more generally to the public
• Peritext – front cover, introduction, footnotes etc
• Epitext – reviews, advertisement, interviews etc
, What is a novel?
• Span and versatility
• Rise of the novel coincides with the rise of the middle class
• ‘Predominant art form of modern bourgeois’ (Lukacs)
• Contemporary golden age of television is praised as ’novelistic’ or ‘Dickensian’, a ce
commitment to the novel
• By 1850, the majority of the population could read
• Increased demand as people wanted to join the culture and access novels
• Name, place, time, space, and style (Watt, The Rise of the Novel)
• Transition of the novel from ‘trash’ to literature (is the same happening with gaming?
• The ‘twenty months, in 1847 and 1848’ are the ‘decisive’ months in the novel’s critic
rise (Williams, The English Novel)
• Paratext is the way ‘by which a text makes a book of itself and proposes itself as suc
its readers and more generally to the public
• Peritext – front cover, introduction, footnotes etc
• Epitext – reviews, advertisement, interviews etc
