A. William Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning Political Justice
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s England in 1819
C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
D. all of the above
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
A. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men
B. Paine’s Rights of Man
C. Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
D. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France - From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?
A. Castiglione’s \The Courtier\
B. Dante’s \Divine Comedy\
C. Boccaccio’s \Decameron\
D. Machiavelli’s \The Prince\ - His “To Penthurst” is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement ?
A. Sir John Denham
B. Ben Jonson
C. Thomas Carew
D. John Dryden - Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?
A. Plato’s The Republic
B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage….. - Feminist criticism focuses on exploring which of the following aspects of literary texts ?
A. How women are portrayed in literary texts
B. The psychologies of female writers
C. How women have been socially oppressed in literary texts
D. All of these - Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?
A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage … ”
C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
D. Edward Said’s Orientalism - Which of the following texts is an example of epic poetry ?
A. “Paradise Lost”
B. “The Odyssey”
C. “The Iliad”
D. All of the above - Which of the following texts is an example of a sentimental novel ?
A. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
B. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
C. Richardson’s Pamela
D. Lewis’s The Monk - Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?
A. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
B. “Piers Plowman”
C. “The Canterbury Tales”
D. “The Book of Margery Kempe” - Which of the following texts provides the best example of the comitatus ethic ?
A. Caedmon’s Hymn
B. The Battle of Maldon
C. The Canterbury Tales
D. The Dream of the Rood
