Novels, Society and History (Chapter-8)

Worlds Famous Novel, Novelists and their work Novelists Novel Main features

How ‘Industrial Revolution’ was reflected in the novels?

Explain the contribution of Premchand in Hindi novels.

What were the advantages of vernacular novels?

What were the advantages of serialized novels—

Explain how did novels became a popular medium of entertainment among the middle class during late 19th century.

“Novels were useful for both the colonial administrators and Indians in colonial India.” Support the statement with example.

Describe the ways in which the novel in India attempted to create a sense of pan-Indian belonging.

Describe how the issue of caste was included in novels in India. By referring to any two novels, discuss the ways in which they tried to make readers think about existing social issues.

In what ways was the novel in colonial India useful for both the colonisers as well as the nationalists?

Write a note on:

(a) The Oriya novel

(b) Jane Austen's portrayal of women

(c) The picture of the new middle class which the novel Pariksha-Guru portrays.

Summarise the concern in both nineteenth-century Europe and India about women reading novels. What does this suggest about how women were viewed?

Outline the changes in technology and society which led to an increase in readers of the novel in eighteenth-century Europe.

Discuss some of the social changes in nineteenth-century Britain which Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens wrote about.

Explain the following:

(a) Social changes in Britain which led to an increase in women readers

(b) What actions of Robinson Crusoe make us see him as a typical coloniser.

(c) After 1740, the readership of novels began to include poorer people.

(d) Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause.