A. Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public
B. Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.
C. A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.
D. all of the above
Related Mcqs:
- Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
A. Beowulf
B. Arthur
C. Augustine of Canterbury
D. Alfred - Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
A. Beowulf
B. Arthur
C. Caedmon
D. Augustine of Canterbury - Which of the following contributed to the rise of vernacular literature ?
A. Most professional scribes found it difficult to write in Medieval Latin.
B. The spoken language tended to take precedence in areas where the Church was weak.
C. Official documents were written in spoken language.
D. All of the above - In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ?
A. 1798
B. 1779
C. 1795
D. 1789 - What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia
C. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value - What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia
C. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value - This approach provides a universalistic approach to literature and identifies a reason why certain literature may survive the test of time. It works well with works that are highly symbolic.What approach has this advantage ?
A. Mimetic
B. Psychological
C. Historical/Biographical
D. Mythological/Archetypal - Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
A. geology
B. evolution
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
D. all of the above - Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
A. geology
B. evolution
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
D. all of the above - 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
