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The Landscape of Discourses until 1750/1850
- literature = learning, learned publications
- discussed in histories of literature and journals reviewing latest literature
- belles lettres = all fashionable and elegant pieces of learning including poetry, fiction
- discussed mainly in prefaces to elegant works, exceptionally also in works of literature
- poetry/poesy = language in verse (including comedy and all works performed with music as operas, cantatas, masks, ballets)
- discussed with a view on textual beauties
- fiction = a story to be read for its instruction and entertainment even if it should be feigned; (romance = a fictional prose history of love and/or adventure presented in a series of adventures; novel = a short story related for the sake of its (new) example, ending with a surprising point)
- interpreted - after Huet’s Treatise on the Origin of Romances (1670) as a cultural indicator