The 18th- century novel Age of reason

1. Realistic novel

1.1. Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"

1.2. Realistic description of time and place

2. Utopian novel

2.1. Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels"

2.2. Shows imaginary nations with strange new socitecies and peoples employed to satirise contemporary English society

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4. main features of the novel

4.1. Writer's aim

4.1.1. Didactic

4.2. Message of the novel

4.3. Characters

4.4. Narrative technique

4.5. Setting in time

4.6. Setting in place

5. Picaresque novel

5.1. Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones"

5.2. it concerns the adventures of young hero through misfortunes

6. Epistolary novel

6.1. Samuel Richardson's "Pamela"

6.2. is told through letters exchanges between different characters

7. Anti-novel

7.1. Laurence Sterne's "Tristam Shandy"

7.2. shows that the orderly narratives of events have little relation to the disorder of the human mind