The journey as a narrative framework in the Restoration-period English novels

Hilal Kaya

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Abstract

The Restoration Period is an age of enormous energy and inventiveness in that it has produced Paradise Lost, The Country Wife and Pilgrim’s Progress. Both literature and philosophy began to flourish in this period. Moreover, it would be impossible not to mention the works of prose in this period, but it is also impossible to satisfactorily date the beginning of the novel in English literature. Although works of narrative fiction, romances, and fictional biographies began to appear in England, they were not called as novels in this early period. On the other hand, without speaking of the early-period (amateur) novel, it seems almost impossible to discuss the eighteenth-century literature. The British novel can be studied under the light of many themes, because many of the works of prose, from the very beginning to the contemporary novels, use some recurring topics or themes in different types of novel. The protagonists’ journeys so frequently make up the form and the message of the stories. This type of journeys is observable in almost all novels of the period. Thus this study undertakes to explore the travel as a narrative framework in the novels of this period, the five early novels of British novel tradition, which are Idalia (1723), Robinson Crusoe (1719), Pamela (1740), Joseph Andrews (1742), and Tristram Shandy (1759), and foreground the travel pattern as a driving force in the context of plot and meaning in these classical novels.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)397-406
JournalODU Journal of Social Sciences Researches
Volume10
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 17 Jul 2020

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • the travel pattern
  • The Restoration Period
  • the British Novel
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • Pamela

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