Question
'As readership grew and the market for books expanded, the earnings of authors increased'. Explain with examples.
Solution
As readership grew and the market for books expanded, the earnings of authors increased:
(i)This freed them from financial dependence on the patronage of aristocrats, and gave them independence to experiment with different literary styles.
(ii)Henry Fielding, a novelist of the early eighteenth century, claimed he was ‘the founder of a new province of writing’ where he could make his own laws. The novel allowed flexibility in the form of writing.
(iii)Walter Scott remembered and collected popular Scottish ballads which he used in his historical novels about the wars between Scottish clans. The epistolary novel, on the other hand, used the private and personal form of letters to tell its story.
(iv)Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, written in the eighteenth century, told much of its story through an exchange of letters between two lovers. These letters tell the reader of the hidden conflicts in the heroine’s mind
(i)This freed them from financial dependence on the patronage of aristocrats, and gave them independence to experiment with different literary styles.
(ii)Henry Fielding, a novelist of the early eighteenth century, claimed he was ‘the founder of a new province of writing’ where he could make his own laws. The novel allowed flexibility in the form of writing.
(iii)Walter Scott remembered and collected popular Scottish ballads which he used in his historical novels about the wars between Scottish clans. The epistolary novel, on the other hand, used the private and personal form of letters to tell its story.
(iv)Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, written in the eighteenth century, told much of its story through an exchange of letters between two lovers. These letters tell the reader of the hidden conflicts in the heroine’s mind
