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Revision questions for the test on Victorian literature
  • How would you in general terms characterise the period of Queen Victoria’s reign? What were the major changes in technology , education, government , social areas , etc and how did they change the mindset of the British people?
  • Why is the Victorian period often compared to the Elizabethan period? In terms of size how would you describe the British Empire? Why was such an enormity needed at all?
  • Why did the Victorian’s develop a doubt in religious matters ? What were the new discoveries that triggered the questioning in religious faith ? Who were David Livingston and Charles Darwin? What were their ideas like?
  • Describe the main social issues of Victorian Britain ? How were they depicted in literature? (workhouses, slums, child labour, disease , etc)
  • What ideas and reforms were behind the ’ woman question’? Describe the three types of the Victorian women, their roles and development throughout time?
  • Self-help books and the ideology behind them ?
  • What is literary realism ( definition , development)? Who were the writers whose style is best characterised by this term ?
  • Victorian poetry : the dilemmas between aesthetics and morality . Tennyson and Browning , the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood: main subjects and ways of writing poetry
  • The Development and role of the novel . Social novels: themes, ideas.
  • Charles Dickens : general characteristics of his life.
    Note that these are just general questions for revision, in the test you might get a more detailed question. There is a fair possibility of a poetry analysis type of a question.
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