A. wanted to subvert middle class values.
B. accepted middle class values.
C. wrote in a hyperrealistic fashion.
D. had a negative view of human nature.
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
A. Anthony Trollope
B. Charles Dickens
C. John Ruskin
D. Friedrich Engels - Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
A. Anthony Trollope
B. Charles Dickens
C. John Ruskin
D. Friedrich Engels - 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 - 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 - In her text, “History of the Novel”, How does Dr. Agatha Taormina define the novel ?
A. A narrative that emphasizes character development
B. A narrative with a unified, plausible plot structure
C. A narrative that conveys the illusion of reality
D. All of these - Which of the following novelists was NOT associated with the rise of the novel as a literary form ?
A. Samuel Richardson
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Charles Dickens - What did the novelists of the first wave of Gothic literature think of religion ?
A. Roman Catholicism was wrongfully dismantled in England by Henry VIII in the 16th century.
B. Jews represent sympathetic literary heroes.
C. Religion is race-neutral.
D. The Spanish Inquisition and the legend of the wandering Jew confirm the superiority of England. - Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?
A. Salman Rushdie
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Rabindranath Tagore
D. John Ruskin - Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
A. Fanny Burney
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
D. Jane Austen - Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
A. the India Mutiny in 1857
B. the Boer War in the south of Africa
C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
D. all of the above
