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Reading practice:
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William Wordsworth, “Preface” to the 2nd Edition of Lyrical Ballads
(Romanticism: an Anthology. Duncan Wu, ed. Oxford: Blackwells, 1996).
Fragments.
S.T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1847), Ch. 13. (Romanticism: an
Anthology. Duncan Wu, ed. Oxford: Blackwells, 1996). Fragments
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. Oxford: O.U.P
Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. Oxford: O.U.P.
Bibliography:
1. Caporale, S. & Aragón, A. Historia crítica de la novela inglesa escrita por
mujeres. Salamanca: Almar Anglística, 2003 (Capítulo IV).
2. Ballesteros, A. & Caporale, S. Frankenstein. Salamanca: Almar Anglística,
1999 (Introducción).
3. Introducción de la edición elegida de Pride and Prejudice
4. Duncan Wu, ed. Romanticism: an Anthology. Oxford: Blackwells, 1996.
1. What is meant by Industrial revolution? Summarize the main characteristics in
relation to culture.
2. What characterizes art and culture at the end of the 18 th Century? What effects
did individualism produced in the literary field?
3. What definition does Wordsworth give of the poet? ((“Preface” to the Second
Edition of LB).
4. What definition do Wordsworth and Coleridge give of poetic language?
(“Preface” to the Second Edition of LB & Biographia Literaria)
5. Introduce the main literary characteristics of Romanticism. What role was given
to Imagination? Who are the oustanding Romantic poets?
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
6. Summarize briefly Jane Austen’s literary background and worldview by referring
to her novels.
7. Analyze Elizabeth Bennet’s character in relation to her use of language and her
duets with Darcy.
8. Can you explain how does Elizabeth define herself as an individual in relation to
Darcy and to the other characters of Pride and Prejudice?
9. In which sense we can affirm that Austen´s Pride and Prejudice is informed by
her economic ideology?
10. Can Austen´s novel be interpreted as a critique of the legal and social situation
of women in the Regency period? Explain your point of view.
Mary W. Shelley’s Frankenstein
11. Describe Mary Shelley’s literary and philosophical background and relate it to
Frankenstein.
12. Discuss the use of narrator in Frankenstein.
13. Relate the Creature’s process of education to his ontological quest.
14. Which autobiographical elements does Mary S. develop in the novel? Use
examples from the text to demonstrate your point of view.
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TEST DE CONOCIMIENTOS GENERALES SOBRE LA UNIDAD
ANSWER TO
CORRECT.
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FOLLOWING
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1. Who said that philosophy `will clip an angel´s wings'?
a. W. Wordsworth b. J. Keats c. Lord Byron d. S.T. Coleridge
2. Romanticism can be roughly defined as
a. the expression of the classical values in poetry and in life b. the expression of a
division between self and society c. the expression of the peace of being and
understanding d. the expression of the philosophical rigours of Neo-Spinozism.
3. During the Romantic period, poetry mattered in a way that it had never
mattered before because
a. poetry was a way of expressing the heritage of Popean satires b. poetry was a
way of expressing the common classical heritage c. poetry was a way of expressing
the common Renaissance heritage d. in poetry only the country expressed its heart
and soul and could express a unique national heritage.
4. The Romantics were often interested in
a. children and Nature b. Newtonian thought c. developing Lockian ideas d. reason
and balance as versification techniques.
5. `A selection of language really used by men' is a definition of poetry that we can
attribute to
a. W. Wordsworth b. P.B. Shelley c. A. Pope d. S.T. Coleridge
6. `Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’ is a definition of the
poet that we can attribute to
a. W. Blake b. P.B. Shelley c. W. Wordsworth d. S.T. Coleridge
7. According to Wordsworth
a. sensations are associated with the contemplation of beauty b. sensations are
associated with his idea of poetry as a medium for delivering a prophetic message
c. sensations have a moral value, and are often associated with simple and human
objects d. sensations are associated with the control of a dream territory.
8. `... poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted' is a
definition of poetry that we can attribute to
a. W. Wordsworth b. P.B. Shelley c. A. Pope d. S.T. Coleridge
9. The Gothic novel was originated in England by
a. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein b. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey c. Horace
Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto c. Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian.
10. The Gothic novel specialises in
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a. neo-classical virtues of order and armony b. extreme didacticism c. wild
landscapes and sensational plots d. abstracts themes and complex mental
experiences
11. Much of the content of Gothic literature was inspired by
a. the realist atmosphere of the 18th century b. the coming anxieties of the 19th
century c. the themes and ideas of the Renaissance and the 16th and 17th
centuries d. dreams or hallucinatory states that were self-induced or produced by
drugs.
12. The destruction of both, Dr. Frankenstein and the creature, means that
a. it is a moral solution. This is an obvious punishment because of their actions and
behaviour b. when reason is pushed to the limits it breaks down. This implies that
the balance is the key to virtue, sanity and wholeness c. As Frankenstein is a
romantic novel, this seemed to be the only possible solution to the author: the
purification by fire d. in Romantic novels the fight between rationality and
irrationality is always won by irrational feelings.
13. Which of the following characteristics the creature does not share with the selfimage of romantic artists?
a. he is isolated from ordinary humanity b. he is in love with a woman that does not
feel the same for him because of its ugliness. This feeling brings him to feel lonely
and alienated from society c. he is cursed with the inability to participate in the
normal joys of humanity d. he is blessed with special insights into the human
condition precisely as a result of his isolation
14. Jane Austen's novels mainly concentrate on
a. The industrial revolution b. The lives and marriages of the rural bourgeoisie c.
The description of romantic scenery d. Europe under Napoleon
15. For Austen´s heroines, marriage is:
a. a moral choice b. an event decided by fate c. the only possible choice women
had in the society of her time d. none of these, she only wants to interest her
reading public
16. Jane Austen´s narrative cannot be considered as Victorian narrative because:
a. It includes romantic elements b. Austen wrote during the Regency period c. It
accepts Neo-classical values and depicts Augustean society d. Austen wrote about
the gentry and not about the working class.
17. In Pride and Prejudice `... it’s a truth universally acknowledged' reminds us of
a. P.B. Shelley´s prose b. Pope´s Essay on Man c. eighteenth-century philosophical
discourse d. Charlotte Brontë´s narrative discourse.
18. When Mary Bennet speaks in the text, she, among other authors, also quotes
from
a. Fanny Burney´s Evelina b. Shelley´s Defence c. Pope´s satires d. Jane Austen´s
Emma
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19. Austen´s fictional world
a. takes shape from her economic ideology b. takes shape from her religious beliefs
c. takes shape from her feminist concerns d. takes shape from her aristocratic
background
20. Elizabeth Bennet defines herself as a character through
a. her uncritical acceptance of social customs b. her love for Darcy c. her precise
use of language d. none of these is true
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