Category: Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries

A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body
B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty
C. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting
D. The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure

A. They raised the question of whether women should be able to vote.
B. They allowed new colonization and imperialism efforts.
C. They established new standards for Victorian morality.
D. They allowed women to divorce their husbands.

A. always fighting for good against evil.
B. fortunate in always coming out victorious.
C. nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight.
D. devoted to religion above all things

A. Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.
B. Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.
C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.
D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

A. rejection of traditional form.
B. portrayal of the power of art to speak truth.
C. rejection of art’s political role.
D. attempt to link poetry with music.

A. A return to neoclassical aesthetics
B. Disassociating painting and poetry
C. Lavish attention to the sensuous elements of life
D. Rejecting English poetic tradition

A. His relationship to God and Christianity
B. His understanding of the basis of economics
C. His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold
D. Both A and B

A. it thematizes the importance of choosing action over complacency.
B. it reflects a Victorian attitude of continuing to fight against loss of hope or faith.
C. it uses Greek mythology to comment on contemporary questions.
D. it emphasizes the internal life of the mind over social action.

A. the ultimate expression of humankind’s ability to control its own destiny.
B. a misguided attempt to overthrow human nature by rejecting tradition.
C. a necessary change that was beginning to go astray.
D. an event that had little consequence to England

A. A period in the 18th century that celebrated industry
B. The revelation of religious truths through meditation
C. The power given to absolute monarchs by God
D. A period in which reason was celebrated as enabling human knowledge and possibly human perfection