ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

The “Condition-of-England” novel was often influenced by external factors. Which of the following non-fiction accounts might have influenced this genre?

A	Mayhew’s
B	Darwin’s
C	Lombroso’s work on criminals
D	Charlotte Bronte’s

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -he term the “Condition-of-England novels” refers to a body of narrative fiction, also known as industrial novels, social novels, or social problem novels, published in Victorian England during and after the period of the Hungry Forties.

Detailed explanation-2: -“The condition of England” was a phrase used by Thomas Carlyle in his essay Chartism (1839) about the “condition and disposition” of working people; it combined sympathy for deprivation with fear of the “madness” of Chartism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hard Times is more than any other of his Condition of England novels that was influenced by Carlyle’s social criticism. It deals with a number of social issues: industrial relations, education for the poor, class division and the right of the common people to amusement.

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

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