2.  As an essayist and critic, Charles Lamb’s best-known work is his two volumes of the Essays of Elia (together with his sister, Mary Ann Lamb).

3.   Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb adapted Shakespeare’s plays into stories for children, titled Tales from Shakespeare, the former reproducing the tragedies, and the latter the comedies.

4.   Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Elizabeth.

5.  The chief business of Mrs. Bennet’s life was to ___________.

6. The Chartist Movement appeared between the 30’s and the early 50’s of the 19^th century.

7.  The critical realism of the 19^th century flourished in the forties and in the beginning of fifties.

8.  The 19^th realists set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of bourgeois social reality.

9.  One of the greatest English realist in the Victorian Age was ______, who created in his works the pictures of bourgeois civilization, describing the misery and sufferings of common people.

10. William Makepeace Thackeray was another important writer in the 19^th century, whose novels mainly contained a satirical portrayal of _______.

11. The two often-used writing styles in the realistic novels of the 19^th century are humor and satire, and the former was used to portray _____ while the latter to _____.

12.  Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton described the inhuman conditions of the life of English workers and the birth of Chartist movement.

13. The second half of the 19^th century in England produced such outstanding poets as Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Charles A. Swinburne, of whom Robert Browning was the greatest, whose masterpiece was An Italian in England.

14. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual. He sympathizes with the poor and defends the oppressed people, but feels terrified before the fire of revolution.

15. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens are London and Paris.

16.   A Tale of Two Cities was his historical novel about the French Revolution.

17. The delightful fairy-tale The rose and the Ring was written by ______.

18.  The main female character in Vanity Fair written by ______ is Rebecca Sharp.

19. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was borrowed by ____ from The Pilgrims Progress written by ____.

20.   The subtitle of Vanity Fair is _______.

21.  The subtitle of Vanity Fair—“A Novel without a Hero” emphasizes the fact that the writer’s intention was not to portray individuals but the society as a whole.

22.  The title of the novel Vanity Fair is suggestive of that Vanity Fair in John Bunyan’s masterpiece The Pilgrim’s Progress, where all sorts of vanities are on sale.

23.  The central characters of The Mill on Floss written by             are Tom and his sister Maggie.

24.  The Mill on Floss tells of the love, estrangement, and eventually reconciliation of the daughter and son of a country miller.

25.  Adam Bede was rural tragedy written by            .

26.  Silas Marner, last and shortest rustic novel written by ______ was set before the Industrial Revolution.

27. Both Jane Eyre by _____ and Wuthering Heights _____ brought to the novel an introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion. 

28. Wuthering Heights deals with a story of love and violence.

29.  "The Song of the Shirt", one of the best poems written by_____ was on the hard life of the labors under capitalism in English literature.

30.  "The Bridge of Signs"  by ______was a poem on the miserable fate of the women of the poor.

31.  In the "The Idylls of the King", the poet Alfred Tennyson painted the first English hero, King Arthur, and gave a new meaning to the legends about the knights of the Round Table.   

32. “In Memoriam”, written by Alfred Tennyson in memory of his friend Arthur Hallam, interpenetrates the theme—the question of immortality of the soul.

33.   In Alfred Tennyson's “The Idylls of the King”, King Arthur’s attempt to bring civilization to his realm through the devotion of his knights fails because of sins which the poet felt to be the peculiar danger of his own age.

34. “Break, Break, Break” and “Crossing the Bar” are two famous lyric poems written by___.

35.“Dramatic monologue” was created by Robert Browning.

36.  In his An Italian in England, Robert Browning portrayed an Italian revolutionary fighting for the freedom of the country.

37.  "The Ring and the Book" written by ____ was often considered his most ambitious work, monumental work and masterpiece.

38.  Robert Browning’s style was highly individual and often more intent on meaning than on form.

39. “My Last Duchess” written by _____ is written in the form of dramatic monologue.

40.  Two important factors, which had large influence on contemporary English literature, were imperialism and widespread demand for social reform of every kind, which bred a spirit of rebellion and despair.

41. The long and progressive reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837-1901) came to a climax in the Diamond Jubilee Year (1897).

42.  Imperialism had its outstanding advocate in Rudyard Kipling, who called England to “take up the White Man’s burden” by dominating all “lesser breeds without law.”

43.  The most prominent writer to defend British imperialism and colonialism was ______.

44. The end of the 19^th century is a period of struggle between realistic trend and anti-realistic trend in art and literature (, the latter reflected the crisis of bourgeois culture at the period of imperialism).

45.  Robert Stevenson is the representative of Neo-romanticism in the novel writing at the end of the 19^th century.

46. The novels of G. Meredith, T. Hardy, and J. Galsworthy are masterpieces of satirical pretrial and psychological analysis. 

47. The works of S. Butler, T. Hardy, and H G. Wells are imbued with pessimism often bordering on despair.

48.  "The history of the world is the biography of the great men"  can sum up the book Heroes and Hero-worship.

49.  The important writer who started as a poet and ended as a poet is Thomas Hardy

50.  Both Hardy’ s poems and novels are transition from realism to modernism.

51.  Thomas Hardy believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.

52.  The writer who figured his hometown—the Wessex country in his works is _____.

53.  The two major “characters” in The return of the Native are Eustacia Vye and the heath itself, which symbolizes the blind forces of nature against which she rebels.

54.  Eustacia Vye is the character in _________.

55.  "A Pure Woman (Faithfully Presented)"  is the subtitle of the novel ______.

56. The Forsyte Saga was written by ____, one of the most prominent of the 20^th century realistic English writers.

57. The trilogy of “The Forsyte Saga” includes The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let, plus two “Interludes” entitled “Indian Summer of a Forsyte”.

58.  _____’s second trilogy entitled “A modern Comedy” contains The white Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and The Swan Song.

59. ______’s third trilogy was entitled “End of the Chapter”, but the narrative is chifly concerned with a rather distant relative of the Forsyte family.

60.  The theme of the majority of Galsworthy’s novels was that (he saw) human existence in terms of the hunters and the hunted with varying emphasis and in a variety of guises.