ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era?
A
Fanny Burney
B
Mary Wollstonecraft
C
Anna Letitia Barbauld
D
Jane Austen
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The American writer Truman Capote claimed to have invented this genre with his book In Cold Blood (1965). A true story of the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family, the book was based on six years of exacting research and interviews with neighbours and friends of the victims and the two captured murderers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Novel of Manners (Chapter 32)-Edith Wharton in Context.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a gothic parody, a comic send-up of the suspense-filled works of Gothic fiction in vogue in the politically volatile 1790s.

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