ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era?
A
Too many of its readers were women.
B
It required less skill than other genres.
C
It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.
D
all of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era? Too many of its readers were women, It required less skill than other genres, It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama, and too many of its authors were women.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Romantic poets also used specific poetic forms: odes, lyrical ballads, and sonnets were popular among the Romantics.

Detailed explanation-3: -Imagination, emotion, and freedom are certainly the focal points of romanticism.

Detailed explanation-4: -The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18.

Detailed explanation-5: -Romantic Age Novelists and their Novels are characterized by escapist urge off realism, imagination and glorification of nature. Austen, Edgeworth & Scott were the leading face of the fictional prose work. And, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Talisman, The absentee were popular novels of the time.

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