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MA English Literature Victorian Literature — practice questions

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Which 19th-century novelist is conventionally placed in the Victorian period of British literature?Read the answer and worked solution →Thomas Hardy is most commonly classified as a:Read the answer and worked solution →Tennyson and Browning are usually paired as the two giants of:Read the answer and worked solution →Hardy is conventionally a:Read the answer and worked solution →Tennyson held which official position?Read the answer and worked solution →Browning is known for which form?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which 19th-century novelist is conventionally placed in the Victorian period of British literature?

  1. Christopher Marlowe
  2. Geoffrey Chaucer
  3. John Donne
  4. Charles Dickens
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Correct answer: D. Charles Dickens

1. The Victorian period spans approximately 1837-1901. 2. Dickens published most of his major novels in that window. 3. Chaucer (medieval), Donne (metaphysical), Marlowe (Renaissance) belong to earlier periods. _Source: Literary History — composite reference — "Romantic, Victorian, Modern, Postmodern (periodisation context)"_

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Thomas Hardy is most commonly classified as a:

  1. Restoration playwright
  2. Romantic poet only
  3. Late Victorian / Early Modernist novelist
  4. Augustan satirist
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Correct answer: C. Late Victorian / Early Modernist novelist

1. Hardy's major novels appear in the 1870s-1890s. 2. His later poetry edges into the early modernist sensibility. 3. He is canonically a late-Victorian novelist. _Source: Literary History — composite reference — "Hardy — listed in Romantic + Victorian content area"_

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Tennyson and Browning are usually paired as the two giants of:

  1. Medieval romance
  2. Augustan poetry
  3. Restoration drama
  4. Victorian poetry
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Correct answer: D. Victorian poetry

1. Both flourished in the mid-19th-century Victorian period. 2. Tennyson held the Poet Laureateship under Queen Victoria. 3. Browning developed the dramatic monologue form. _Source: Literary History — composite reference — "Tennyson, Browning — Victorian poets"_

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