What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period ?
Correct answer: C. A focus on the individual
- A. Realism
- B. An epistolary format
- C. A focus on the individual
- D. An English setting
Explanation
Like many eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century novels, Gothic fiction centres on the individual and that person's fears, desires, and moral choices. An epistolary form and an English setting are common in some works but not shared by most of them.
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