LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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Question
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A governess heroine
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Encounters with a number of painful situations that are connected with her position as a governess
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Trouble in relation to her employers or her pupils
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Aspects of the supernatural, particularly of ghosts or ghostly presences
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Detailed explanation-1: -The most popular novels of the Victorian age were realistic, thickly plotted, crowded with characters, and long. Describing contemporary life and entertainment for the middle class. According to Merriam Webster, popularity is the “state of being liked, enjoyed, accepted, or done by a large number of people”.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Victorians were haunted by the supernatural, by ghosts and fairies, table-rappings and telepathic encounters, occult religions and the idea of reincarnation, visions of the other world and a reality beyond the everyday.
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: -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.