A. Samuel Richardson
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Charles Dickens
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?
A. Marxist criticism
B. Reader-response criticism
C. Psychoanalytic criticism
D. New Criticism - How did the term “Gothic” become associated with the literary phenomenon known as the Gothic novel ?
A. The excessive violence found in the Gothic novel
B. The barbarians that populate the Gothic novel
C. The use of the word in the subtitle of Walpole’s novel
D. The style of architecture found in the Gothic novel - With which literary form or movement is the Restoration most closely associated ?
A. Familiar essays
B. Comedies of manners
C. Romanticism
D. Medievalism - 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 - 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 - Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?
A. Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.
B. Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.
C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.
D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings. - Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory ?
A. Literary criticism is concerned only with the meaning of a literary work, while literary theory is concerned only with the structure of a literary work.
B. Literary criticism draws upon research derived from sources outside literature, while literary theory draws upon sources within a text.
C. Literary theory is concerned with the method used to interpret a work, while literary criticism is the application of literary theory.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - As a mode of literary criticism or theory, formalism attempted to bring which of the following to literary studies ?
A. An awareness of the historical circumstances surrounding a text’s production
B. A set of objective criteria for critical analysis
C. An awareness of the economic circumstances surrounding a literary text
D. Strict criteria for evaluating the quality of a literary text
