A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature D. a philosophy dictating that … Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?Read More...
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 … What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?Read More...
A. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry. B. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily. C. It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn’t make serious statements about society. D. all but C...
A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s. B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics. C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age. D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and … What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?Read More...
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