18th-Century Novels

[Anonymous No.12171713]

What is your favorite novel of the 18th-century? Pic related: forced to study it at university and thoroughly impressed by it.

[Anonymous No.12171729]

>>12171713
It opened me to a new possible world of terror.

[Anonymous No.12171741]

>>12171729
Elaborate?

[Anonymous No.12171754]

That. That's my favourite novel from the eighteenth century.

After that, maybe Six Records of a Floating Life? I haven't read much eighteenth century stuff, to be honest.

[Anonymous No.12171781]

>>12171754
I'll give it a try. I've flipped through for the language and read about the tricks and play. Maybe Don Coyote?

[Anonymous No.12171889]

>>12171781
Seventeenth century nigga

[Anonymous No.12173186]

bamp

[Anonymous No.12173301]

Rousseau’s Confessions. It doesn’t matter at all what you think of his politics, philosophy, or attitude, he lived life like a proto-Chad with autism who happens to be an artistic polymath and THE Enlightenment man, fuck Voltaire

[Anonymous No.12173474]

Smollett - Roderick Random
Burney - Evilina
Goldsmith - Vicar of Wakefield
But the GOAT is Tom Jones, still the greatest English novel, Middlemarch fags can fuck off. Does Middlemarch have a drunken catfight described in mock-Homeric language? Does Middlemarch feature a scene where a man accidently goes to bed with his own mother? Does Middlemarch feature the author breaking the fourth wall to explain why you're a pleb for liking all the plot twists he's feeding you?

[Anonymous No.12174084]

>>12173474
>But the GOAT is Tom Jones, still the greatest English novel, Middlemarch fags can fuck off. Does Middlemarch have a drunken catfight described in mock-Homeric language? Does Middlemarch feature a scene where a man accidently goes to bed with his own mother? Does Middlemarch feature the author breaking the fourth wall to explain why you're a pleb for liking all the plot twists he's feeding you?

this sounds fucking good, desu senpai

[Anonymous No.12174409]

>>12174084
It's even better than I've made it sound
>As a vast herd of cows in a rich farmer's yard, if, while they are milked, they hear their calves at a distance, lamenting the robbery which is then committing, roar and bellow; so roared forth the Somersetshire mob an hallaloo, made up of almost as many squalls, screams, and other different sounds as there were persons, or indeed passions among them: some were inspired by rage, others alarmed by fear, and others had nothing in their heads but the love of fun; but chiefly Envy, the sister of Satan, and his constant companion, rushed among the crowd, and blew up the fury of the women; who no sooner came up to Molly than they pelted her with dirt and rubbish.
>Molly, having endeavoured in vain to make a handsome retreat, faced about; and laying hold of ragged Bess, who advanced in the front of the enemy, she at one blow felled her to the ground.

[Anonymous No.12174445]

>>12173301
You're an idiot if you read Rousseau's Confessions and thought of him as anything other than a kept woman. He might have tried for a few years to make something of himself, but ultimately he was findomed into genius by a more intelligent woman. You want to do tic for tac, my year is open bitch. Come at me.

[Anonymous No.12174547]

>>12174445
Uhhh, what are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.12174685]

>>12174547
The book Rousseau wrote about being a kept woman. You did read the book before suggesting it didn't you anon?

[Anonymous No.12175061]

>>12171713
L'Histoire de Juliette ou les Prospérités du vice

[Anonymous No.12175357]

>>12173474
I like both but prefer Random, maybe Clinker to both. Fielding's clever but a more wooden writer. Special Fondness Award goes to DeFoe's Journal of the Plague Year.

[Anonymous No.12175393]

>>12171713
Ernst Jünger recommended it, so it is bound to be good.