The diversity of the languages of the emigrants led to the publication of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Languages in 1828
It was in Prose that truly American Characteristics emerged
American
Independence
-The short story became a distinctive form
suitable for wide circulation in cheap magazines and providing ideal entertainment for the reader
-The novel ead becoming the ideal frame for fantastic stories,legends and myths
The leading short story writer was Edgar Allan Poe while Cooper was the novelist who created the first 'epic' of the frontier
an important step in the development of a spirit of National Unity and Increased the need for an american culture and literature that could reflect their identity
HISTORICAL NOVEL
Sir Walter Scott
The italian writer Alessandro Manzoni whose long narrative The Betrothed was published in 1827
Both of them mixed historical truths and fictions but their linguistic means are different
removed any regional inflectuons
from the language employed in the definitve edition of The Betrothed because he aimed at creating a national consciousness
Use a lot of Scottish dialect since
he wanted to celebrate the glorious past of his country and its independence from England
.Took the past of Scotland as his
main subject and mixed it with imaginative adventures
-Mixed highly figurative language with dialect to portray real and living characters
-introduced new concept of history
-interested in the moments when an important historical crisis caused personal problems in individuals or in group
Waverler(1814) and Ivanhoe(1819)
described those conflicts
was to get people realise
that History was not just
a list of political and religious
events but the product of Human decisions
a passion for this novel among
readers and writers
It reflects the romantic
interest in the past (Middle Age)
Jane Austen
were based on the premise
that there is a vital relationship
between manners,social behaviour
and character
19TH CENTURY
The rise
of the Novel Of Manners
-Marriage and complications
of love and friendship
-Passions and emotions are
not expressed directly but thinly
and obliquely
-Third person narrator
-Dialogue plays a central role,
especially as a vehicle for irony
-usually set in the upper
and middle levels of society
-ecplore personal relationships,
class distinctions
-influence of money and property
on the way people treat each other
How these classes behaved
in everyday situations and
desbribes their codes of conduct
SOCIAL HIERARCHY
CHANGING
Wealth and Influence were passing from Aristocracy to the Middle Classes
-deeper psychological insight
-more detailed description
of the relationships between
the social classes
-character's self-realisation and
inner maturity
-development of dialague as a tool
of bringing the characters to life
ROMANTIC FICTION
END OF 18TH CENTURY
NOVEL MOST POPULAR FORM OF FICTION
new interest
in the individual
especially the conflict
between his personal desires
and ambitions
