B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.

C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.

D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

B. Their conservative poetics

C. Their radical politics

D. Their nationalistic tone

A. traveled to America.

B. believed in God.

C. rejected Newtons view of the universe.

A. Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy.

C. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion.

D. Like the novel, it focused on romantic relationships.

A. Swifts A Modest Proposal

B. Popes The Rape of the Lock

C. Lewiss The Monk

A. Disassociating painting and poetry

B. A return to neoclassical aesthetics

C. Rejecting English poetic tradition

A. Social contract

B. Checks and balances

D. Enlightened monarchy

A. Samuel Richardson

B. Laurence Sterne

D. Daniel Defoe

A. His relationship to God and Christianity

B. His understanding of the basis of economics

C. His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold

A. Subjective experience

C. Romantic origins

D. Linguistic indeterminacy

A. They allowed new colonization and imperialism efforts.

B. They allowed women to divorce their husbands.

C. They established new standards for Victorian morality.

B. Pamelas parents attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner

C. Pamelas struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work

D. Pamelas attempt to seduce her employer

B. He opposed it in favor of supporting the king and the ancien rgime.

C. He thought it did not go far enough in granting women rights.

D. He did not think it concerned him and his relationship to nature.

B. Industrial Revolution

C. Scientific Revolution

D. Technological Revolution

B. His lovers betrayal

C. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans

D. The Protestant Reformation

B. The falsity of human art as opposed to the immediate truth of nature

C. The utter rejection of youthful folly in favor of mature rationality

D. The failure of the poet when a youth to imagine his future

A. More magazines on the market

B. Lower prices for magazines

C. The rise in serialized fiction

B. A parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the Enlightenment interest in reason

C. A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity

D. A sense of awe in the power of the natural world

B. Both are largely set in South America, reflecting the relationship between empire and the early English novel.

C. Oroonoko seems to defend the aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates the struggles of the middle class.

D. Both make claims to historical veracity.

A. Biography

B. Nonfiction

C. Travel memoir

A. It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period.

B. It functions as a metaphor for the womens rights movement.

D. It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

B. social contract theory of government.

C. blank slate or tabula rasa.

D. natural political rights.

A. are an example of antithesis to suggest the falcons contradictory nature.

B. refer to the speakers heart.

D. indicate the speakers lack of faith.

A. by emphasizing sexual morality.

B. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.

C. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the characters feelings.

A. language shows humanitys impulse towards order.

B. reason can help man understand beauty.

C. civilization comes through beauty.

A. the creature, after he has killed Victor Frankenstein.

B. Victor Frankensteins diary.

D. Mrs. Saville, Frankensteins cousin.

B. It has a melancholic tone.

C. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a natural setting as an occasion for philosophical reflection.

D. It is a dramatic monologue.

B. devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.

C. reliance on classical scholarship.

D. defense of violent emotions as natural.

B. commenting on the French and Indian War.

C. revealing his interest in Chaucer.

D. promoting the rise of museums.

A. Darwins work was almost universally accepted from its first appearance.

B. Almost all religious authorities rejected Darwins work completely.

C. Darwins work had little initial influence on Victorian society and culture.

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.

D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

A. A discussion of womens roles inside and outside the home

B. A conversation about womens work as a product of the Industrial Revolution

C. A debate about whether women should be able to vote

A. is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.

B. suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.

D. indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.

A. like a novel, it makes claims to historical realism.

B. like a novel, it tells its story with an emphasis on realistic detail and the everyday passage of time.

C. like a romance, it focuses on an aristocratic character considered superior to average individuals.

A. romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.

B. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.

D. romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.

A. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.

C. a dramatic monologue spoken by Browning.

D. an epic describing a great romance.

B. it reflects a Victorian attitude of continuing to fight against loss of hope or faith.

C. it thematizes the importance of choosing action over complacency.

D. it uses Greek mythology to comment on contemporary questions.

B. folklore.

C. exoticism

D. nationalism.

B. John Locke

C. Denis Diderot

D. David Hume

A. a necessary change that was beginning to go astray.

C. the ultimate expression of humankinds ability to control its own destiny.

D. an event that had little consequence to England

B. demonstrate the importance of the topic.

C. reveal the learnedness of the characters.

D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers

A. The power given to absolute monarchs by God

B. A period in the 18th century that celebrated industry

C. The revelation of religious truths through meditation

A. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

C. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.

D. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.

B. Alexander Pope

C. Percy Shelley

D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A. The government

B. Organized religion

D. Marriage

A. Ann Radcliffe

B. John Keats

C. Alfred Lord Tennyson

A. The aristocracy

B. The institution of marriage

C. Ideas about chastity

A. Its use of mysterious events to spur readers interests and emotional responses

B. Its medieval settings

D. The sublime

A. The common man

B. The movement of time

D. The outcast figure

A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body

B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty

D. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting