LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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Like the novel, it focused on romantic relationships.
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Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion.
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Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings.
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Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 18th century marked the period where novels were distributed on a large scale, and a certain level of demand arose among English readers. This demand is also due to people’s desire for reading about everyday events, events which went on to shape the lives and actions of fictional characters.
Detailed explanation-2: -The authors sought to have an understanding of what humanity was like. The 18th century appeared during an era of political upheavals. The characteristic of the authors work done during this age is that it laid emphasis on the unity of politics and literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -A key concern in the eighteenth century novel is its preoccupation with realism, and realistic depiction of society. Broadly speaking, ‘realism’ is a term that can be applied to the accurate depiction of the everyday life of a place or period in a literarily work.
Detailed explanation-4: -Favored Poetic Form: Heroic Couplets and Formal Language By far the most dominant form of poetry in the 18th Century was the Heroic Couplet. Just as Dryden’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid was written in Heroic Couplets, as was Pope’s later translation of The Iliad, so were most serious poems of the era.