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The 18th- century Novel

Realistic Novel
1. Main Representative: Daniel Defoe with his novel Robison Crusoe
2. Main Features: Realistic descriptions of Time and Place
Utopian novel:
1. Main representative: Jonathan Swift with his novel Gulliver’s Travels
2. Main features: imaginary nations with strange new societies and peoples employed to satirise contemporary English society
Epistolary novel
1. Main representative: Samuel Richardson with his novel Pamela
2. main features: told through letters exchanged between different characters
Picaresque novel
1. main features: episodic in structure; it is concerned with the adventures of a young hero who has to deal with tyrannical masters and misfortunes but generally manages to escape these situations by using his wit
2. Main representative: Henry Fielding with his novel Tom Jones
Anti-novel
1. main representative: Laurence Sterne with his novel Tristram Shandy
2. main features: the orderly narratives of events have little relation to the disorder of the human mind, which is not linked to a logical sequence of events

The 18th- century Novel

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