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 readership of novels began to include poorer people. (d)
Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause....
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(a)As the middle classes became more affluent, women got more leisure time to read and write novels. Also, novels began to explore the world of women, their emotions, identities, experiences and problems. Domestic life became an essential subject of novels- a field women had an authority to speak about.
(b)Actions of Robinson Crusoe: (i)Shipwrecked on an island, Crusoe treats coloured people not as human beings equal to him, but as inferior creatures. (ii)He rescues a 'native' and makes him his slave.
(c)After 1740, the readership of novels began to include poorer people because of the introduction of circulating libraries, low-priced books, and also because of the system of hiring out of books by the hour.
(d)Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause because the novel was a powerful medium for expressing social defects and suggesting remedies for the same. It also helped establish a relationship with the past.