3.1
Heroical Romances:
Fénelon’s Telemach (1699)
1
Sold as romantic inventions, read as true histories of public affairs:

 
Queen Zarah (1705)
2
Sold as romantic inventions, read as true histories of private affairs:
 
Manley’s Rivella (1714)
3.2
Classics of the novel from the Arabian Nights to the Princesse de Clèves (1678)
4
Sold as true private history, risking to be read as romantic invention:
 
DeFoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719)
5
Sold as true public history, risking to be read as romantic invention:
 
La Guerre d’Espagne (1707)
3.3
Satirical Romances:
Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605)

 

 

 

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From Olaf Simons, Marteaus Europa oder Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde (Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2001), p.190.