As the Enlightenment period brought new ways of thinking and concern with reason; fantastic and religious ideas were suppressed. With the turn of the century and the return of James II to the throne, theater began to flourish again, women writers emerged, religion and morality returned to the fore (Todd 36, Richetti). Even as the pendulum swung away from the Enlightenment, the desire for reality-based material continued to be strong, but the line between fact and fiction is normally indecipherable (Richetti). People in the Restoration period craved gossip and "factual" stories that they could sink their teeth into, just as we have television, newspapers, etc. today. to give us our dose of reality and fiction combined (Todd 32, Richetti 6). John Richetti in the Cambridge Companion says: "Indeed, the novel, the narrative institution, which finally emerges from this rich confusion, is an outgrowth of the norms of that intellectual development which we call the Enlightenment, for with the strict establishment of 'a categorical vision and absolute difference between the fictional and the factual, the new novel is a mode of regulation and realignment of these perhaps naturally interpenetrated spheres' (Richetti 2) with the coming and going of the Enlightenment, we retain the need of substance imbued with truth, but there is still a need for a little fantasy with larger-than-life characters dealing with good and evil and a provocative story that can at least be stretched to possibly be true. With the possibility of discovering scandalous things about the people contained in the stories; there had to be qualifiers about how learning this "real" story can also be educational and for the moral well-being of readers because...... middle of article..... nsequence and discouragement of "naughty" actions Just as all the tabloids today pretend that their gossip is true and we swallow up this information, the 18th century novel had much the same effect by telling readers that this information is true. were true. In addition to receiving a "moral" lesson, readers could enjoy a private and scandalous story to get their dose of drama in a realistic setting. Both Pamela and Fantomina are examples of the emergence of mixing reality and fiction to create a more dynamic, more interesting story, grounded in reality while remaining within the constraints and needs of the times that continue to flourish Today. Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. John Richetti, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 Todd, Janet. Angelique's sign. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.