For more It’s Lit, subscribe to Storied: http://bit.ly/pbsstoried_sub The guy typically credited with inventing what we know as the modern novel was Miguel de …
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B N
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
A book I haven't seen mentioned here as probably the first novel is Lucian of Samoasata's "A True Story" (2nd century Ad). Pretty interesting stuff with interstellar battles and tribes of fish people living inside a huge whale. The title is programmatic as the story revolves thematically around truth and lies and is thus pretty modern even in that regard.
SloanePaoPow
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Beauplaisir! LOL!
Ethan O. McBride
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
@7:73 #CancelCulture
nāmorghūlilaros
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Pretty weird that you didn't bring up the Tale of Genji. Kinda thought that's what this video would be.
Wolfheart Darnell
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Wow. Everyone knows that the novel was invented by Lady Murasaki over a thousand years ago.
KedjLycandros
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
👍👍
Kenshin Himura
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
I dunno. I think the tale of genji is genius.
Elizabeth Royer
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Ahh I did my undergraduate thesis on this topic! So cool.
Moss Mother
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
I've craved more Lindsay content.
faboo faboo
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Lindsay: … and ends up smothering him…
me: with kisses?
Lindsay: … to death.
me: 😳
A Casteel
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
In my uni we were taught the first novel was the Tale of Gengi.
Ditta
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
I was never shown anything of these women’s work in Australia, everything was only Shakespeare, Shakespeare, and Shakespeare. Most of the old writers I found out on my own or from friends who had gone to university, but that was only a way to Virginia Woolf.
Jane Austen and Emily Bronte through the BBC show dramas and I was not a fan because of being such a tomboy, but in later years I read them all and I understand that the books are not love tales like some girls in high school think they are.
TheManAndTheFriedLime
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Great video but I don't know why you had to hate on Quixote… which was also earlier than these ladies' work according to the video
BAYWATCH
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
There's one creature you overlooked, the Tulpa, ppl claim to have created their own Tulpa's with fascinating consequences
BradyPostma
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Woo! Lindsay Ellis content!
My day just got better!
kronosmorpheus1234
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Lindsay! I love you're presenting this one!
Rocío Miranda
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Don Quixote is a very wise and funny book, if you read it at the right age. It's a rich painting of 16th century Spain. Glad to have you back, Lindsay.
Frost Queen
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Nothing like the feel of a book in your ✋😁
pommeG03
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
I love this! I took a whole class on this in college, reading several pieces by the women mentioned here, but then kind of following the novel's progression into Richardson, finally ending with Frances Burney. On a somewhat related note, I got into a weird faze a year ago where I found and read a bunch of novels written by the best-selling lady authors of in the US during the 1800s and I think they're even more underappreciated. We even have a letter from Hawthorne to his publisher complaining about "scribbling women" eating up the entire publishing industry and making it hard for "real" writers like him to make waves, referring to those now-forgotten female writers!
Bryan McGucken
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
Romance novels aren't my cup of tea (though romance subplots in fantasy or mystery novels are 🙂 ) But I will fight you if you act like they aren't as legit as any other genre. There are lots of "real" literature that are also forgotten in 10 years. Most of which I also find boring, lol.
Mathieu Leader
July 17, 2021 at 6:52 am
I guess author Barbara Cartland carried on the tradition of amatory fiction