A. six lectures
B. five lectures
C. four lectures
D. seven lectures
Related Mcqs:
- Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’ ?
A. Johnson
B. Cromwell
C. Shakespeare
D. Luther - ‘On Heroes and Hero…worship is written by________________?
A. Huxley
B. Carlyle
C. Ruskin
D. Mill - ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by______________?
A. Ruskin
B. Carlyle
C. Mill
D. None of these - Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes ?
A. Ben Jonson
B. John Ruskin
C. Thomas Carlyle
D. William Hazlitt - The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means ?
A. Religious Scripture
B. Seaside Resort
C. Tailor Repatched
D. None of these - How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?
A. It focuses on a royal hero.
B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
C. It focuses on adventures.
D. It connects to poetry. - Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes ?
A. Arrogance
B. Nihilism
C. Good spirits
D. Dark humor - How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?
A. a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits
B. a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being
C. a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
D. the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium - 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. - 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.
