How do novels connect people of common interests? Who formed the readerships for novels in Europe from 17th century onwards.

Some people in eighteenth-century Europe thought that print culture would bring enlightenment and end despotism. It’s easy and cheap availability meant that literacy would no longer be restricted to the...

Proto-industrialization was the early phase of industrialized in Europe and England when there was large-scale industrial production for an international market. This was not based on factories. It was successful in the...

(i) In a serialised novel, a story was published in instalments, keeping the suspense for the next issue.  (ii) Serialisation allowed readers to relish the suspense, discuss the characters of a...

(i) By the mid-19th century, Richard M. Hoe of New York had perfected the power driven cylindrical press. This was capable of printing 8,000 sheets per hour. This press was...

(i) Books became cheaper and helped the individuals to read which developed rational thinking, scientific outlook, liberalism and democratic ideas. (ii) The writings of the great philosophers like Thomas Paine, Rousseau...

(i) Periodicals, journals and newspapers in the early 18th century combined information from various fields. (ii) That’s how the ideas of scientists and philosophers became more accessible to the common people. (iii)...

Jane Austen: (i) Her novels give us a glimpse of the women's world in refined rural society in the early 19th century Britain. (ii) It portrays a society which encourages women to...

Measures adopted to make novels accessible to the people: (i) Introduction of circulating libraries. (ii) Hiring out novels by the hour. (iii) Technological improvements in printing reduced the price of novels.

The answer is  (B) Amazing social diversity

(a) All statements are true.