Nayee Kitab Prakashan Tamas : Swaroop Aur Sarokar (Paperback, Ed....

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In "The Rise of the Novel," Open Want concludes that economic factors hindered the novel's growth and popularity in the West until the eighteenth century. Even there, extreme poverty led to a large number of illiterate people, limiting the readership. However, by the nineteenth century, economic development accelerated, and an educated middle class benefited from it. The novel reflected the modern ideas of this class. Novel writing experienced a tremendous growth throughout Western society. Theories and critical methods defining the novel gradually evolved. This was the period when E.M. Forster saw the depiction of life through time as the novel's distinctive function. Ralph Fox declared that he casts the characters of his novels among the masses because his readers and critics not only live among them but also because there is a kind of living unity between them (Relationship of the Novel and Sociology, The Condition of the Novel). Clarifying the novel's essence in "The Novel and Public Life," Ralph Fox also stated that the novel is not merely narrative prose but the prose of human life as a whole. Because the novel possesses a greater capacity than other literary genres to directly express the hidden complexities, tensions, and contradictions of life, it is also called the epic of the struggle of the proletarian individual or society against social conventions, religious superstitions, and socio-economic exploitation. This perspective allows the novel to emerge as a critique of life. It is within these specific conceptions that the novel emerged. Among literary genres, the novel's rise, development, continued expansion, and popularity are undoubtedly based on the educated public, whose reading appetite motivates the creation and publication of novels. Since this ideal situation was established long ago in Western societies, Therefore, there was a continuous expansion of novel writing and creation, hence this fact is a historical truth.