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
Document created October 1st 2010