Category: Restoration and 18th Century

A. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
D. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë

A. Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public
B. Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.
C. A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.
D. all of the above

A. often
B. long
C. much
D. fast

A. Goorge peele
B. Samuel daniel
C. Phineas fletcher
D. Thomas kyd

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.

A. Ben Jonson
B. Alexander Pope
C. Robert Herrick
D. John Dryden

A. the fractal
B. the figment
C. the fragment
D. the aubade

A. the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
B. the Toleration Act
C. the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada
D. the Act of Union

A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien régime, especially satire
B. English historians half a century after the period ended
C. “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)
 

A. William Beckford’s Vathek
B. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
C. Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Randsom
D. Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian