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The increasing popularity of the English novel from eighteenth century onwards is an indicator to... more The increasing popularity of the English novel from eighteenth century onwards is an indicator to the fact that novel, more than any other genre, provides the maximum space for narrating the nation. The true history of a 'nation' does not lie in the battles of kings and fall of empires, but in the everyday world of peoples' life whose inherent flexibility, untouched by the conflicts in the realms of the political state, allows their coexistence. The writer as a social being is also situated in a community in a historical context. He has to acquire a world view through the aperture which enables him to see as much of the world as it is possible for him and to make his reader visualize. Thus a writer, located in a Third World Country, marked by poverty, hunger, exploitation and oppression, has to identify himself with the suffering masses.

The increasing popularity of the English novel from eighteenth century onwards is an indicator to... more The increasing popularity of the English novel from eighteenth century onwards is an indicator to the fact that novel, more than any other genre, provides the maximum space for narrating the nation. The true history of a 'nation' does not lie in the battles of kings and fall of empires, but in the everyday world of peoples' life whose inherent flexibility, untouched by the conflicts in the realms of the political state, allows their coexistence. The writer as a social being is also situated in a community in a historical context. He has to acquire a world view through the aperture which enables him to see as much of the world as it is possible for him and to make his reader visualize. Thus a writer, located in a Third World Country, marked by poverty, hunger, exploitation and oppression, has to identify himself with the suffering masses.

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