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jan 1, 1742 - "Joseph Andrews" by Henry Fielding

Description:

- represents the coming together of the two competing aesthetics of 18th-century literature: the mock-heroic and neoclassical (and, by extension, aristocratic) approach of Augustans such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift

- and the popular, domestic prose fiction of novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson

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Date:

jan 1, 1742
Now
~ 284 years ago