Lingue

NATURE: a common feature of romantic poets is to consider nature as living organism of which man takes part: nature is a mirror of feelings and passions which shake man and by them he reaches an internal balance. In particular Blake’s characters reaches this balance through God’s knowledge, for the fact that he is present in nature and in animals like t

Characters: his characters are neither heroic ones, as in the old romances, nor picaresque ones, as in Defoe. Richardson , in fact, is the first writer to put, at the centre of his works, the new middle-class people, with their problems and desires.
Richardson's novels are epistolary, in fact they are made up of letters. The advantages of this kind

Later he writed a series of short stories for children, and the novel “The picture of Dorian Gray”. After his first and only novel he developed an interest in drama and produced a series of plays. However both the novel and the tragedy damaged the writer’s reputation, since the former was considered immoral, and the latter was prevented from appearing o

But what makes Sterne great is the subtle humour, the irony and the smile which emerge from his pages. He gives the reader a picture of what man can be when he is free from conventions and can give vent to his instincts, sentiments and feelings.
Style: Sterne uses the first person narrator, through which he describes what the characters feel and th

All these elements of novelty give to his novel the character of anti-novel. In particular the title which read Life and Opinions and not Life and Adventures as the convention dictated. The novel in fact does not deal with the adventures and events of Tristram Shandy’s life but with his mental life. And everything which is narrated in the novel is dist

3 The hero’s successive actions finally lead him towards catastrophe, but suffering he achieves selfrecognition, that makes him capable of facing his destiny with courage.
4 Tragic action can be reinforced or enriched by such elements such as: the supernatural ( the witches in Macbeth and the ghost in Hamlet ) and the chance or accident ( the pestil

Tecniques: Pride and Prejudice is narrated by a third person omniscient narrator, even if the narrator often identifies with Elizabeth’s point of view or he shares the point of view of the people of the village like in the scene of the ball.
The settings of episodes are often house interiors or a domestic outdoor spaces like parks or gardens and th

The plot is no longer based on a simple sequence of events, as in Defoe, or on a single story, as in Richardson, but presents a well built combination of episodies, structured and organized in an organic unity.
Characters: unlike Richardson, Fielding is much more interested in society than in the single characters and all his novels offer a realist

STILE DI WILDE, JOYCE E JANE AUSTEN.
WILDE :AS REGARD THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY IT CAN BE READ AS A LATE OFFSPRING OF THE GOTHIC NOVEL BECAUSE OF ITS SUPERNATURAL PLOT: IN FACT THE SUSPENCE IN THE READER, THE SENSE OF MISTERY AND THE UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES UNRESOLVED REMIND US OF THE GOTHIC NOVEL. INSTEAD IN THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST THE LANGU

Realism: the events are usually presented in the form of a diary or of an autobiography, related in the first-singular person in order to increase verisimilitude.
There is not a real plot but a sequence of events unrolling, in a chronological order, around the same protagonist.
The setting is represented by the island that is the ideal place f