early novels
Author's initial works
Early novels refers to the first phase of the novel as a literary form, typically meaning works from the late 17th through 18th centuries in English—Defoe's *Robinson Crusoe*, Richardson's *Pamela*, Fielding's *Tom Jones*.
The term distinguishes these pioneering prose narratives from the more developed novels that followed.
Her dissertation focused on early novels and the rise of print culture.
- RealismMovement depicting ordinary life
- Enlightenment idealsAge of Reason values
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- BildungsromanNovel of formative years
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- early literatureessay, pamphlet, treatise, epistle, fable
- Early English VerseChaucer, Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Donne
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