LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“heal the wounded heart.”
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“enlighten the mind and infuse the wit.”
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“encourage strong minds, strong souls, strong bodies.”
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“preach to the nerves instead of the judgment.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the aims of sensation fiction was to surprise and trouble readers by challenging social conventions, but another Victorian genre, melodrama, achieved popularity by upholding popular values.
Detailed explanation-2: -David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1849) You can’t have a list of Victorian novels without Dickens, and David Copperfield is his most humane work. At least partly autobiographical, it’s the story of a young boy’s life as he grows towards maturity, narrated by David Copperfield himself.
Detailed explanation-3: -The extremely popular novels of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), with their wealth of concrete detail and reflection of specific social conditions, exemplify such realism. Overall, Victorian authors strove for realism in style and subject, strove to reproduce nature as it was, not as it was imagined or idealized.
Detailed explanation-4: -While the novel was the dominant form of literature during the Victorian era, poets continued to experiment with style and methods of story-telling in their poems. Examples of this experimentation include long narrative poems (epic poems) and the dramatic monologue as seen primarily in the writing of Robert Browning.