State of the art by 1820s

Considering Austen, Dacre, Hogg

Realist, may include:

Gothic, may include:

More likely to become canonical

Specialist appeal, more likely to fade from history

Literary qualities (style, plot, characterization, etc.)

Sub-literary qualities (bombastic style, improbable events, coincidences, flat characters, etc.)

Reliable narration

Unreliable narration

Reflects self of reader

Reflects states of alienation

Appeals to social context

Isolation and solitude, the sublime (terror, horror)

Settings familiar, domestic

Settings unfamiliar, foreign [until sensation fiction]

Character judgement, development, education

Character determinism, deterioration

Presentism, immediacy

Influence of past, the uncanny

Errors, mistakes, misjudgements

Crimes, insanity, psychopathology

Companionate marriage, female initiative

Patriarchy, inheritance, female oppression

Comic mode

Tragic mode

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Document created October 1st 2010