Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
Correct answer: D. Jane Austen
- A. Fanny Burney
- B. Mary Wollstonecraft
- C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
- D. Jane Austen
Explanation
Jane Austen's fiction focuses on courtship, social manners, class, and domestic relationships, making it a classic example of the novel of manners. Her work is less directly aligned with the Gothic and reform-oriented fiction popular in her period.
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