Yurttaş, Hatice2023-04-172023-04-172022Yurttaş, Hatice. (2022). Eighteenth-century Novel: History, Fiction, Truth, Imagination, etc.TAELS Conference, Tunus.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12713/3903Terminology has always been a problem in evaluating early women’s writing. Terms such as memoirs, life-story, history, romance, or novel have been used since seventeenth-century for novels produced in the long eighteenth century without offering a clear definition of these terms. This terminology problem indicates the lack of a clear understanding of modern genres in eighteenth-century and a larger problem today which is imposing modern taxonomy of writing on early modern period when different types of writing such as history, literature, romance, novel, memoir, biography are not established yet. In the prefaces, titles, and the texts, the authors name their writing as novel or history without offering a definition. Today we do so offhandedly based on our understanding of fact and fiction. This paper will look at Eliza Haywood’s romances and Henry Fielding’s discussion of genre in his Preface to Joseph Andrews and in The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling to discuss the different views of history, romance, and novel in eighteenth-century fiction. This discussion will show that the artificial boundaries between fact and fiction which will come to govern the modern taxonomy of writing is at stake in this terminology chaos in early novel.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessEighteenth Century NovelTerminologyThe Novel GenreWomen's WritingConference Object