A. Too many of its readers were women.
B. It required less skill than other genres.
C. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.
D. all of the above
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
A. Too many of its readers were women.
B. It required less skill than other genres.
C. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.
D. all of the above - 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 periodical publications (reviews and magazines) first appeared in the Romantic era ?
A. London Magazine
B. The Spectator
C. The Edinburgh Review
D. a and c only - Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
A. London Magazine
B. The Spectator
C. The Edinburgh Review
D. A and C only - The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?
A. Elizabethan era
B. English Reformation
C. England
D. Tudor period - Detractors argue that such an approach can be too “judgmental.” Some believe literature should be judged primarily (if not solely) on its artistic merits. What approach possess this disadvantage ?
A. Psychological
B. Formalism/New Criticism
C. Moral/Philosophical
D. Historical/Biographical - Which British philosopher of the Romantic era despised monarchies, believed that the best form of government was no government at all, and argued that change can only come from people treating each other with sincerity and benevolence ?
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. Edmund Burke
C. William Godwin
D. John Locke - Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?
A. Charles Lamb
B. Jane Austen
C. William Hazlitt
D. Oliver Goldsmith - Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
A. Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. William Wordsworth
C. George Gordon, Lord Byron
D. all of the above - Although Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?
A. Its character’s movement from slavery to freedom.
B. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.
C. The novel’s sensationalist scenes of violence.
D. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice.
