4.1. History of Novel

 4.1 History of Novel

Short Notes for objective type of questions

1. The word NOVEL is derived from the Italian word NOVELLA which means NEW.

2. A novel is relatively long narrative fiction which describes intimate human experiences.

3. The novel has a history of about two thousand years.

4. Murasaki Shikubi's "Tale of Genji" (1010) has been considered as the world's first novel.

5. The European novel is often said to begin with 'Don Quixote' by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes which was published in two parts between 1605 and 1615.

6. After 1740, novel originated as the literary form in England.

7.Novella - originated from Italian word 'Novelle' .

8. Novella - shorter than novel and longer than short stories.

9.  9. Important Novella are -

a)   a) The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

b    b) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

      c) Billy Budd by Hermann Melville

      d) Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

       e) Seize The Day by Saul Bellow

       f) Pearl by John Steinbeck 

      

Writer	Novel	Related information
Virgil	Ecologues
Malory	Morte De Arthur
Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales
Murasaki Shikibu	Tale of Genji (1010)	World's first novel
Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote (1605&1615)	European first novel
John Bunyan	The Pilgrims Progress	1678
Aphra Behn	Oroonoku	1688
Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe, Mall Flanders
Jonathan Swift	Gulliver’s Travels	Famous satire
Samuel Richardson	Pamela, Virtue Rewarded and Clarissa	Epistolary novels, 18 th century novelists
Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne, Tobias Smollett		18 th century novelists
Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Horace Walpole, Thomas hardy, Willkie Collins and H.G. Wells		18 th century novelists
E.M.  Forster, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, George   Orwell,   Graham   Greene,   D.H. Lawrence,  William  Golding  and Anthony Burgess.		20th century novelists
Salman Rushdie (India), V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad), Kazuo Ishigura (Japan)		Immigrant authors of 20th century
Women Novelists
Frances Burney	Evelina	Novel of manners
Ann Radcliffe		Gothic novels
Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	Science fiction
Jane Austen		Ruling over the minds of people
Bronte sisters Emily	The wuthering Heights
Charlotte	Jane eyre
Mary Ann Evans alias George Eliot		Wrote psychological novels
Virginia Woolf		Pioneer of the Stream of consciousness technique of English novel
Agatha Christie	Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple	Wrote novels on crime
Harper Lee, , Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker		Other women novelists
Indian Scenario
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya	Rajmohan’s Wife	First novel in English written by an Indian
Mulkraj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao		Major Indian novelists
Anita Desai,  Nayantara  Sahgal  and Arun  Joshi and   Manohar   Malgaonkar Amitav  Ghosh,  Vikram  Seth and   Upamanyu   Chatterjee Salman   Rushsie,   Arvind Adiga,  Arundhati  Roy,  Kiran  Desai  and Kiran  Nagarkar		Other important Indian novelists