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Despite enjoying widespread readership in their own era, a significant body of women's novels from the 1800s in America was effectively sidelined by the twentieth century's intellectual establishment, which dismissed such works as overtly moralistic. Yet American letters had long embraced a pedagogical impulse, one traceable to its earliest Puritan influences. This tradition evolved steadily - from religious sermons and verse transcriptions to full-length fiction - and the novel emerged as an especially effective medium for transmitting communal ethical norms. During the 1800s, literary arbiters condemned Hawthorne for failing to append clear moral lessons to his tales, whereas Whittier earned lasting prestige precisely because of the instructive quality of his poetry. Though a drift away from overtly moral writing was already discernible as American culture grew more secular throughout the nineteenth century, it was ultimately the aesthetic absolutism of twentieth-century literary criticism - which elevated formal and stylistic concerns above all else - that left no room for literature whose primary aim was ethical instruction.
1. Which of the following best describes the role of the bolded sentence in the passage?
A. It accounts for why the novels described in the opening sentence fell out of favor among later readers.
B. It supports the broader argument by illustrating how attitudes toward moralistic writing differed across two distinct critical eras.
C. It offers evidence for the claim that twentieth-century readers were systematically discouraged from engaging with certain texts.
D. It challenges the validity of a critical distinction that literary arbiters drew between two specific authors.
E. It explains why one author's work achieved greater commercial success than another's during the same historical period.
2. As used in context, "transmitting" most nearly means
A. conveying
B. transporting
C. granting
D. imparting
E. broadcasting
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For question 1, how does one discern that Whittier and Hawthorne are from different eras?
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Despite enjoying widespread readership in their own era, a significant body of women's novels from the 1800s in America was effectively sidelined by the twentieth century's intellectual establishment,
Though a drift away from overtly moral writing was already discernible as American culture grew more secular throughout the nineteenth century
Though a drift away from overtly moral writing was already discernible as American culture grew more secular throughout the nineteenth century
The two come from different eras, but this does not necessarily mean two different centuries of millennials. You have eras even decades apart.
The bold sentence just tells you this
