LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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means that we approve of the novel’s practicality.
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refers to the materiality of the text, that it is not digital and that it does not exist only in the head but is “real.”
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assumes that reality inheres in the here and now and emphasizes accurate descriptions of setting, dress, and character.
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means that texts must engage with political action.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Realistic Novel and its Formation This form of literature used journalistic techniques in order to make the literature something closer to real life with facts and general stereotypes of human nature. The attention to detail was made to just report the facts, not commenting or judging on the scene or character.
Detailed explanation-2: -Victorian era literature was characterized by depictions of everyday people, hard lives, and moral lessons. They were meant for more than just entertainment. Victorians were interested in the hero as well as folk art. Victorian novels often focused on these themes.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Omniscient narrator provided a comment on the plot and erect a rigid barrier between right and wrong (didactic aim) The setting s the city (symbol of industrial civilization, anonymous lives and lost identity) Long and complicated plot. More items