What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
Correct answer: A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
- A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
- B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia
- C. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
- D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value
Explanation
Nonfiction gained popularity through a growing market for prose and the Victorian belief that writing should educate and improve readers. The other choices either give narrow explanations or apply later critical ideas.
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