Who is called the father of the modern novel?
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Henry fielding is known as the father of the modern novel.
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Answer:
Henry Fielding is called the father of the modern novel.
Explanation:
The first English novel is said to have been Le Morte d'Arthur written by Thomas Malory in 1485. Others argue that it was Don Quixote (1605) or Ooronoko (1688). However, the novel was made famous by Daniel Defoe in his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719).
Henry Fielding was called the father of the modern novel by Sir Walter Scott, giving him a special place in a history of literature. Even though he was not the first person to write a novel, he approached the genre with a fully worked out theory about the novel, as we can see in his novels such as Amelia, Tom Jones, etc.
He began a tradition of realism that was presented through a microscopic study of contemporary English society, which dominated English fiction until end of the 19th century.