explain the reasons for the popularity of novels in mid 18th century Europe
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Answer:
(i) Once the print culture emerged, novels were widely read and became very popular. Novels produced a number of common interests among the scattered and varied readers.
(ii) As the readers were drawn into the story and identified with the lives of fictitious characters they could think about issues such as relationship between love and marriage, the proper conduct of men and women and so on.
(iii) While reading a novel, the reader was transported to another person’s world and began to looking at life as it was experienced by the characters of the novel.
(iv) Besides novels allowed the pleasure of reading in private as well as the joy of publicly discussing or reading stories with friends and relatives.
(v) Novels written in vernacular or spoken languages of the people were particularly popular because these were closer to the heart of the reader.
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Explanation:
The following are the reasons that popularised the novels in 18th century
(i) Novel was one of the first mass produced item to be sold.
(ii) The world created by novels Was absorbing and believable. Readers felt and transported into another world and began believing it as real.
(iii) Besides criticising the ills of society novels also suggested the remedies.
(iv) Novels brought many cultures together. It produced the sense of a shared world between diverse people in a nation.
(v) Novel dealt, with the every day life of common people and became a powerful medium to criticise the prevailing administrative machinery.