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Essential Definitions & Formulas

The novel

a modern form of literature.

It

born from print, a mechanical invention.

A format in which the story

published in instalments, each part in a new issue of a journal Fig.

Explain what

meant by the following types of novels: ¾Epistolary novel ¾Serialised novel For each type, name one writer who wrote in that style.

It

about Michael Henchard, a successful grain merchant, who becomes the mayor of the farming town of Casterbridge.

He

an independent-minded man who follows his own style in conducting business.

Donald Farfrae who runs his business on efficient managerial lines and is well regarded for he

smooth and even-tempered with everyone.

We can see that Hardy mourns the loss of the more personalised world that

disappearing, even as he is aware of its problems and the advantages of the new order.

It

a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane

shown as independent and assertive.

Fiction

a department of literature in which women can, after their kind, fully equal men .

Aunt who

always unkind to her: ‘People think you a good woman, but you are bad .

The Panchatantra

another.

It

set in the Burmese invasion, stories of which the author had probably heard from old soldiers who had fought in the 1819 campaign.

It

a tale of two lovers belonging to two hostile families who are separated by the war and finally reunited.

It

the story of Ramchandra Mangaraj, a landlord’s manager who cheats his idle and drunken master and then eyes the plot of fertile land owned by Bhagia and Shariya, a childless weaver couple.

On the right is the temple where the family and others would gather and on the left

the drawing room where Bankim would entertain select friends to discuss new literary works.

Indirabai continues to be popular and

regularly reprinted.

This

the cover of a recent reprint.

We are so used to reading in silence that it

difficult for us to think that this practice was not very common in the past.

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