While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?

Related Mcqs:

Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?

A. All knowledge is derived from experience. B. Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power. C. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality. D. The sensory world is an illusion....

Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period ?

A. Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of the working classes B. Labor reform, improving working conditions for industrial laborers C. Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase in literacy D. A and C only...

What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse ?

A. the conviction that he was damned forever B. the loss of his fortune in the South Sea Bubble C. the vindication of Newtonian physics D. condemnation of his work by Jeremy Collier...

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...

With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre ?

A. the revenge tragedy B. the Gothic romance C. the epistolary novel D. the comedy of manners...