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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2016  
         
  Article:   ON THE ‘SERIOUSNESS’ OF EARLY MODERN ENGLISH FICTION.

Authors:  AMELIA PRECUP. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  On the ‘Seriousness’ of Early Modern English Fiction. In his 2013 book, The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature, Franco Moretti explores the complex relationship between aesthetic forms and the values of the society that produced them. Moretti focuses on analysing the connection between the nineteenth-century realist novel and the ethos of the bourgeoisie, by examining the ways in which the features of what he calls ‘serious’ literature developed under the influence of the ‘serious’ bourgeois society. Using Moretti’s analysis, this paper sets out to investigate if and how these features manifest in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century prose fiction, with a view to add an evolutional perspective to Moretti’s thesis.

Keywords: Franco Moretti, serious fiction, early modern English fiction, literary strategies.
 
         
     
         
         
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