In the nineteenth-century Slovene novel two ideological directions developed. The goal of the first, aesthetuc-pedagogical, ditection was to educate citizen-subjects, so that they would respect and follow the rules of law and order. Its literary model was The vicar of Wakefield by O. Goldsmith. The setting of the plot shoud be a peaceful, idyllic countryside. The main character shoud be a young man, but, rather, a mature man with ample life experience or an older man. The city, urban population, and a foreign country should be presented as a negative countpart to the positive countryside. The desired social system is the human feudalism (J. Stritar, gospod Mirodolski, J. Tavčar, Cvetje v jeseni). The second ideological direction was modeled uponthe cultural-political premises of Austro-Slavicism. Its consistent literary materialization is Levstik's Martin Krpan
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