What type of writing did Walter Pater define as the special and opportune art of the modern world ?

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Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?

A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem B. sound as a means to express meaning C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue D. all of the above...

What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels ?

A. the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail B. a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness C. the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society D. A and C...

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 ?

A. women’s rights and suffrage B. child labor C. Chartism D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians...

What was Elizabeth’s close circle of advisers called ?

A. The Star Chamber B. Parliament C. The Privy Council D. The Cabinet...

Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the “supreme governor” of all things spiritual. Who was it ?

A. The Pope in Rome B. Each man was his own supreme governor C. The Archbishop of Canterbury D. Queen Elizabeth I...