Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
A. William Morris
B. John Ruskin
C. Edward FitzGerald
D. all but c
Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. sound as a means to express meaning
C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. all of the above
Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ?
Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ?
A. A group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldn’t tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England.
B. Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.
C. They were part of the High Church or the Catholicside of the church.
D. They were devout tractarians,as described by John Henry Newman.
Spenser’s Epithalamion is____________?
Spenser’s Epithalamion is____________?
A. a narrative poem
B. a sonnet
C. an elegy
D. a wedding hymn
’George Eliot’ was the pen-name of______________?
’George Eliot’ was the pen-name of______________?
A. Mary Collins
B. Marian Evans
C. Lara Evans
D. Clare Reeve
Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?
What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?
A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.
Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century?
Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century?
A. Paris
B. Tokyo
C. London
D. Amsterdam
Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________?
Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________?
A. George IV
B. George III
C. William IV
D. Edward VII
The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as____________?
The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as____________?
A. H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine
B. W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn
C. Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries
D. Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries