ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Of all the truisms about Jane Austen, the favourite for the past centuries is that a little interest is taken by her in the broad concerns of national life. It is a proposition which seems quite obvious to the readers of Pride and Prejudice or any other of Austen’s works.

Detailed explanation-2: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852): Like many other examples of domestic fiction, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s smash success Uncle Tom’s Cabin used sentimentality and depictions of domestic life to turn readers’ attention toward a moral cause, in this case: the evils of slavery.

Detailed explanation-3: -THEME: Love & Marriage: The main theme of Austen’s novel is love and marriage. In her novels a young woman falls in love with a rich and desirable man. She has to face a lot of difficulties in the way of her marriage. But everything ends very well.

Detailed explanation-4: -Often characterized as “country house novels” or “comedies of manners", Austen’s novels also include fairy tale elements. They have less narrative or scenic description and much more dialogue than other early 19th-century novels. Austen shapes a distinctive and subtly constructed voice for each character.

Detailed explanation-5: -Domestic Fiction is a genre. This type of/such novel (mainly) deals with and focuses on young (people’s) domestic lives, typically middle-class women who are learning to make their way in the world. So far the plot, as well as the conflict of such fictions, are concerned; they often/generally center around some things.