Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries

A. scientific emphasis on detailed observation.
B. the political focus on individuals and their rights.
C. philosophical theories of sympathy and human emotions.
D. the continuing importance of mythological stories.

A. devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.
B. emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration.
C. reliance on classical scholarship.
D. defense of violent emotions as natural.

A. William Congreve
B. Ann Radcliffe
C. Matthew Lewis
D. Charles Dickens

A. Immanuel Kant
B. John Locke
C. David Hume
D. Denis Diderot

A. Romanticism continued the Enlightenment’s focus on a universal order best apprehended through reason.
B. Romanticism challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on objectivity as the basis of truth.
C. Romanticism largely abandoned the
Enlightenment’s hope in progressive political change.
D. Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism deemed the natural world unimportant

A. A return to neoclassical aesthetics
B. Disassociating painting and poetry
C. Lavish attention to the sensuous elements of life
D. Rejecting English poetic tradition

A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body
B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty
C. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting
D. The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure

A. Repeal of the corn laws
B. Opium Wars
C. Great Exhibition
D. French Revolution

A. It emphasizes emotion over reason.
B. It has a didactic moral focus.
C. There is a focus on a central love story.
D. All of these answers

A. England’s power to overcome the recent plague and the great fire of London
B. The monarch’s ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance
C. The church’s potential to unify the populace after the English revolution
D. Parliament’s ability to restrain the power of the King