维多利亚时期测试题.docx

Test to Victorian Age Fill in the blanks. (25 ) 1. In the Victorian period, , and moral propriety, which were ignored by the Romanticists, became the predominant preoccupation in literary works. In the Victorian period, the became the most widely read and the most vital expression of progressive thought. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, the Victorian novelists shared one thing in common,that is, they were all concerned about the fate of the people. A new literary trend called flourished in the forties and the early fifties of the 19th century. The Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. The Chartist poetry played an important role in the development of English proletariat literature; the greatest Chartist poet was . The comic element is strong in Charles Dickens first novel, , which appeared in monthly sections between April 1836 and November1837. It records the adventures of Mr. Pickwick and his companions as they journey about the country. is one of Charles Dickens best works. It is written in the first person and is the most autobiographical of all his books. In writing the novel, Dickens threw into it deep feelings and much of his own experience in his younger days. Written in 1837-38, tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provide material for a description of the lower depths of London. In his works, Dickens sets out a full map and a large-scale criticism of the 19th century England, particularly (The name of a city). In A Tale of Two Cities , the two cities are in the time of revolution. The novel Hard Times makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and bourgeois philosophy . The novel touches upon a burning question of Dickens ti me: the education of children in the private schools. was the greatest representative of English critical realism. In 1847, William Makepeace Thackeray published his masterpiece which marks the peak of his literary ca