The eighteenth century seems to have been always the great unknown not only of English literature, but d ela literature in general. Has been neglected by critics, however, deserves our attention because of its cultural dimension and, above all, ideological. One consequence of this neglect has been the lack of criteria for classification and periodization, since for the same period there has been talk of Neoclassicism, Enlightenment, Rococo and pre-Romanticism. To say that the eighteenth century neoclassical is rather slow, synecdoche is a simplification. The eighteenth century was to set each and every one of these movements simultaneously. On the other hand, has said it is the century marked by Reason, the century in which everything is subject to reason, hence the high regard dle scientific thought. He is also the century of the Enlightenment idoelogía of bourgeois, liberal, liberal, whose base is Rationalism versus barbarized and decadent aristocracy. But the enemies of the Enlightenment are also the most archaic remnants of feudalism, dogmatism and religious fanaticism. The problem is that those same enlightened intellectuals constructed their own dogmas replace God by nature and religion and ethics. This means that modern man continues to spiral out of his own created since ancient times, but now take dyes modernity.
It is true that his (blind) faith in science led to combat illiteracy and to promote social progress and welfare. Your literature should be preferably moral teaching and the literature now serve to take a critical attitude towards reality and to transform society for the benefit of the citizen. The eighteenth century is the Age of Enlightenment, of the academies, institutions Cutrale of conversation at the Halls, but also the century of natural law, universal values \u200b\u200bof equality, culminating in the bourgeois revolution. However, we have d ethene presnete which is in turn the century that the triumph of the bourgeoisie and its capitalist economic ideology.
Like any era or movement, there are always contradictions. On the one hand, it is the era of knowledge and learning, the century of Kant, Voltaire and Goethe, whose ultimate symbol is the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert, a century of good taste and morality. Worse, on the other hand, is the century that also illuminates, paradoxically, the so-called "literature of debauchery", the reverse sexual morality and the high social classes, the erotic horror, whose main symbol is the Marquis de Sade.
However, we have a third way to characterize the eighteenth century and qe can draw in the first two: the eighteenth century is the century of the novel, the modern novel in the strict sense. Interestingly, in Spain, a hundred years ago saw the birth of Don Quixote and enjoyed dle genre called picaresque, it was neat in novels for XVIII. The kind of success will be the scene, or rather the stronghold of the baroque theater. The novel, however, will be discredited, because if it did not meet criteria prose historical, rhetorical, moral or religious, it was bordering on the popular, as entertained the masses.
While despised these creations here, in Europe, especially England, the novels of Cervantes and the picaresque court obtained a considerable following. One of the first authors who wrote "novels" were Defoe and Swift, who unwittingly contribute then to the renewal novel. Defoe's case is extremely revealing. From his Robinson Crusoe, educational, critical exponent of society and individual value against the community rules, goes on to write other novels such as The Adventures of Captain Singleton or Moll Flanders , where the novel is released to stringent conditions that oppressed romancing. We face loq ue Juan Carlos Rodriguez has called up the "literature of the poor", whose origins went back to the positions Franciscans and Dominicans, whose literary birth was located in the false autobiographies or construction of lives as those of Lazarillo, the Buscón, Guzman, La Celestina, the Andalusian or Rinconetey Lozana Cortadillo, with its variations and differences. But in the eighteenth something changes.
That naked and initiatory castaway Robinson Crusoe is perhaps the world dle quite poor because he is all alone in the world. When all is said and done, it is the recreation of the myth of origin, recalling that Robinson writes his life in a Bible whose pages have been faded after the event.
Somewhat later, Swift Jnathan do something similar with Gulliver's Travels. As a travelogue and building a life initiation, Swift would challenge the education received in a given society education is pointless in the circumstances, and ultimately society becomes more unfair. The novel provides an adequate remedy against poverty atrocious Irish: if children were dying and starving parents, the only remedy left was to eat the children.
Cervantes's novel for these writers becomes a kind of holy book, a Bible. But Richardson, Fielding and Stern are best learn the lesson of Cervantes. Samuel Richardson favors a psychological novel of sentiment analysis, interior, while a line open Fielding satirical, more intellectual and distant, that will have great impact. Richardson's Pamela poses the problem of the poor arrived in town. Epistolary narrative is based on feelings, but also in the exploitation of relationships. Here the poor and suna maid whose virtue is harassed and persecuted. The author offers the following solution to the conflict: If the maid gets to resist the gentleman, he eventually married her. The text, yes, shows a rather Manichean division of the world: the good, ultimately, triumph, and evil in the end, they are punished.
more interesting novels like Fielding in Joseph Andrews and, above all, Tom Jones, a foundling . The latter is also a history of masters and servants, and, like Richardson, Fielding says aristocratic values, but not blood lineage or inheritance, but as social attitudes. Fielding in his novels reflect how weak is the boundary that separates the legal world that is outside the law, the ambiguity of appearances, the confusion between good and evil displayed fused mexclados. There is neither good or bad characters, but the characters act good or bad depending on circumstances.
L. Sterne Tristram Shandy writes his , the best adaptation of Don Quixote, with extreme sarcasm not only of poverty but of human misery, nature morally human misery. The novel is a brilliant recreation of porpio narrative genre of fiction that breaks into reality and vice versa, such that the character is aware that is read by the reader. Another manifestation
strong d ela English novel and already close to Romanticism is the "Gothic novel." Horace Walpole in 1764 published his Castle of Otranto . Radcliffe, with The Mysteries of Udolpho , devoted to gender. And I happen to others like Lewis with The Monk .
From Germany stands Goethe. his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , by way of letters, also implies a romantic ad, then the author left. Werther, however, will become an icon for rebellious youth and romance, catching on the vest ... and suicide. Fausto , written in sixty years and finished shortly before his death, is without doubt one of the best works of world literature, Faust favorite man of God, is dissatisfied with the lack of knowledge and, after considering suicide, sealed a pact with the Devil. But then, love into his life ...
The novel in France was also very fruitful. Following the texts of Urfé, Madame Scudéry and Fenelon, find authors such as Marivaux relevant or Abad Prevost. Rousseau, who believed in the goodness d ela nature and a new society, wrote two novels that reproduce the feel of the XVIII: Julia The New Heloise, sentimental epistolary novel type that is a prelude to the triumph of Romanticism versus openness hypocrisy, the freedom from prejudice, virtue against vice, and Emilio , tried teaching or teaching in
defending natural education, an education without artificial schemes or restrictive rules. Emilio, the child is a symbol of the innate goodness of man in opposition to the social evil. Within the didactic novel, Voltaire also contributed with his works, especially with The naive , which draws on the topic of the noble savage reaching civilization. Once educated, it becomes so hypocritical and corrupt as the others. To Voltaire no civilization possible for the world. Diderot, known for his encyclopedic work, also published prying jewelry, erotic, fabulous and fun, playing with the double meaning of "bijoux". Other French novelists: Mme Riccoboni, Restif de la Bretonne, dear Marquis, Choderlos de Laclos, Madame de Staël, etc.
defending natural education, an education without artificial schemes or restrictive rules. Emilio, the child is a symbol of the innate goodness of man in opposition to the social evil. Within the didactic novel, Voltaire also contributed with his works, especially with The naive , which draws on the topic of the noble savage reaching civilization. Once educated, it becomes so hypocritical and corrupt as the others. To Voltaire no civilization possible for the world. Diderot, known for his encyclopedic work, also published prying jewelry, erotic, fabulous and fun, playing with the double meaning of "bijoux". Other French novelists: Mme Riccoboni, Restif de la Bretonne, dear Marquis, Choderlos de Laclos, Madame de Staël, etc. know little about the novel in Portugal (Nuno Marques Pereira, Margarita Teresa da Silva) 'or Italy (Ugo Foscolo with Jacobo Ortis, Pietro Chiari), compared with Britain, France and Germany, countries characterized by a strong novelistic development.
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