By 1890, what percentage of the earth’s population was subject to Queen Victoria ?

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A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages. B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel. C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe. D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand … What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?Read More...

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...

Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?

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