LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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The divorce rights of women against an obviously male-biased law that determined that, while a wife’s adultery was sufficient cause for a divorce, a husband’s adultery was insufficient cause
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The dangerous and scheming prostitutes of the Contagious Disease Acts and the threat they posed to the Victorian family
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The political machinations of the empire during Victoria’s reign, particularly as regards British colonies
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The property rights of women against an obviously male-biased law that determined only men could inherit
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Detailed explanation-1: -Themes and reception. Typically the sensation novel focused on shocking subject matter including adultery, theft, kidnapping, insanity, bigamy, forgery, seduction and murder.
Detailed explanation-2: -The genre derived its name from the contemporary theater’s “sensation drama” noted for spectacular effects and displays of intense emotion. Sensation fiction drew on a variety of popular forms including melodrama, domestic realism, newspaper reports, Newgate novels, and gothic tales.
Detailed explanation-3: -Writers such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë illuminated contemporary social problems through detailed descriptions of poverty and inequality.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dickens was an outspoken social critic in general, but especially about poverty. Before the birth of Britain’s Welfare State, which aims to support the poor, Dickens sought to help the poor by highlighting the social inequality in his country.