Chapter 8
Novels
and Society
in brief 1. 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 roadership of novels began
to include poorer people. d) Novelists
in colonial India wrote for a political cause.
2. Outline the changes in technology and society which led to an
increase in readers of the novel in eighteenth - century Europe. 3. 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.
Discuss 1. Discuss some of the social changes in nineteenth - century
Britain which Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens wrote about 2. Summarize the
concern in both nineteenth - century Europe and India about women reading
novels. What does this suggest about how
women were viewed? 3. In what ways was
the novel in colonial India useful for both the colonizers as well as the
nationalists? 4. 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. 5. Describe the ways in which the novel in
India attempted to create a sense of pan - Indian related project Imagine that
you are a historian 'p - 2035 AD. You
have just located two novels which were written in the twentieth century. What we ot tell you about society and customs
of the time?
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