AGES ERA PERIOD
VICTORIAN AGE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
|
|
|
It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
|
|
|
It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn’t make serious statements about society.
|
|
|
all but C
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women? It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily. It often concerned the domestic world with which women were familiar.
Detailed explanation-2: -Women’s fiction is an umbrella term for women centered books that focus on women’s life experience that are marketed to female readers, and includes many mainstream novels or women’s rights books.
Detailed explanation-3: -The realistic Victorian novels became popular because it was the first time characters in a novel were similar and connected to the people of the middle class. Newspapers, Press, and Publishing: One very important source of information on the realistic novel’s popularity are the newspapers that wrote about them.
Detailed explanation-4: -They were viewed as only supposed to be housewives and mothers to their children. The women during this era were only viewed as people that should only concern themselves with keeping a successful household. However, during this time women were forced into working positions outside of the household.