The document provides information about Vanita Wagh, a student in the first semester of 2012-2013 with roll number 22. It then discusses the key characteristics of literature from the Neoclassical age, including a focus on reason and imitation of classical writers. The age emphasized logic over emotions and the good of the community. Finally, it lists some defining features of novels from that period, such as them being works of fiction, having settings, themes, characters, and expressive language.

1. Name : vanita wagh
Sem : 1
Roll no : 22
Year : 2012-2013

2.  Literature of the age is concerned with ‘Nature’-
human nature.
 Supremacy of reason
 Unity in the works of all writers
 The age is known as Classical Age
 The writers of this age were greatly influenced by the
classical writers. So they imitated them in their work.
 The age rejected fancy and desired to be guided by
reason.
 The age wished to understand, not to imagine.
 Society demanded instruction and information
 Help to establish some practical rule of conduct
 Influence of France.

3.  Imitation of classical form.
 Artificial and aristocratic society.
 Sophisticated sexual behaviour.
 Honour comes from reputation,not
integrity
 Style is polite,urbane and witty
 Instructive and entertaining

4.  emphasis on logic and rational thought, not emotions;
emphasis on the social/good of the community, not the
individual
 presence of numerous classical allusions; use of satire;
use of elevated diction; formal style that adhered to set
rhyme schemes, such as couplets; two-dimensional
characters or stock types that represent a class or vice
 Influence of Drama-comic satires
 rise of literary magazines
 novel in various forms, including picaresque, gothic, and
novel of manners

5. 1.A novel is a work of fiction place:
2.A novel has a setting
3.A novel has theme or a main concern
comes from the writer’s imagination
4.A novel has strong characterisation
5.A novel most use expressive languege