[BA 2nd Sem Question Papers, Dibrugarh University, 2013, English, Major, History of English Culture and Society - II]
2013 (May)
ENGLISH (Major)
Course: 201
(History of English Culture and Society - II)
(From the 18th Century to the 20th Century)
Full Marks: 80
Pass Marks: 32
Time: 3 hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
1. Answer any eight of the following: 1x8=8
- Who is the author of Lives of Poets?
- What were the two prominent political parties of England in the Eighteenth Century?
- Who collaborated with William Wordsworth in writing Lyrical Ballads?
- In which year was Darwin’s Origin of Species published?
- What was the name of the ship in which Darwin made his voyage?
- Who wrote Moll Flanders?
- Who is the poet of The Charge of the Light Brigade?
- Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?
- With which literary group were writers like Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster associated?
- Who wrote The Waste Land?
2. Answer any three from the following: 4x3=12
(a) Write a brief note on the basic features of the Enlightenment.
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Prepare a note on the contribution of Mary Wollstonecraft to emancipation of women.
(b) How did the coffeehouse culture impact the social, political and literary life of England in the Eighteenth Century?
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Make a short assessment of Samuel Johnson as an important literary figure of the Eighteenth Century.
(c) Prepare a brief note on the significance of Lyrical Ballads in introducing the Romantic Movement.
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Write a short note on Jane Austen as a novelist of the Romantic Age.
(d) What were the effects of urbanization on English Society in early Nineteenth Century?
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Prepare a short note on George Bernard Shaw as a Twentieth Century dramatist.
3. Assess the contribution of Pope to Eighteenth Century English Poetry. 12
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Prepare a note on Samuel Richardson as a writer of the epistolary novel.
4. What do you mean by Romanticism in English Poetry? Discuss the salient features of Romantic Poetry. 12
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Prepare a note on the prose writings in the Romantic Age.
5. Make a critical assessment of Charles Dickens as a Victorian novelist. 12
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Write a note on the effects of Darwinism on Nineteenth Century English Literature.
6. Discuss the factors that contributed to the collapse of colonization in Twentieth Century. 12
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Make a critical assessment of the Twentieth Century War Poetry.
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7. Assess the contribution of some of the prominent Twentieth Century dramatists towards the growth of modern drama. 12
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Define Post colonialism. Discuss the features of post colonial literature. 4+8=12
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