ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Richardson made the transition from master printer to novelist on 6 November 1740 with the publication of Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. Pamela was sometimes regarded as “the first novel in English” or the first modern novel.

Detailed explanation-2: -This stylistic volume is considered the seed of Richardson’s first novel, Pamela (1740), which he started to write at the same time.

Detailed explanation-3: -Legacy. Sir Walter Scott called Henry Fielding the “father of the English novel, ” and the phrase still indicates Fielding’s place in the history of literature.

Detailed explanation-4: -Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era. Literary historian Ian Watt, in The Rise of the Novel (1957), argued that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century.

Detailed explanation-5: -Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be the world’s first novel, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012.