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Novels, Society and History
How the novelist countered the effects of modernity in India?
The ways:
(i)Although they were about imaginary stories, novels often spoke to their readers about the real world.
(ii)But novels did not always show things exactly as they were in reality. Sometimes, they presented a vision of how things ought to be.
(iii)Social novelists often created heroes and heroines with ideal qualities, who their readers could admire and imitate.
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Social changes in Britain which led to an increase in women readers.
What actions of Robinson Crusoe make us see him as a typical coloniser?
After 1740, the readership of novels began to include poorer people.
Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause.
Outline the changes in technology and society which led to an increase in the readers of the novel in the eighteenth century Europe.
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The Oriya novel
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Jane Austen's portrayal of women
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The picture of the new middle class which the novel Pariksha-Guru portrays.
Discuss some of the social changes in nineteenth-century Britain which Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens wrote about.
Summarise the concern in both nineteenth-century Europe and India about women reading novels. What does this suggest about how women were viewed?
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