Category: Romantic Period

A. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men
B. Paine’s Rights of Man
C. Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
D. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

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. Maria Edgeworth
B. Sir Walter Scott
C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Jane Austen

A. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden
B. the clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots
C. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
D. Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary and everyday

A. Hunnish epic
B. Gothic fiction
C. epistolary novel
D. meta-novel

A. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the polite patter of a corrupted age
D. the divine gift of grace

A. troubadour
B. skald
C. chorister
D. bard

A. Jane Austen’s Emma
B. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
D. Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley

A. The notoriety of the Lake School
B. Technological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press
C. Innovations in retailing, such as the cut-price sale of remaindered books
D. Increased literacy, thanks in large part to Sunday schools

A. the expurgation of indelicate language
B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary
C. the insertion of bawdy songs
D. the misspelling of simple words like theand and