[单项选择]The Victorian Age was largely an age of prose, eminently represented by Charles Dickens and

[单项选择]The Victorian Age was largely an age of

[单项选择]The Victorian Age was largely an age of ______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.


A. poetry
B. drama
C. prose
D. novel

[单项选择]The Victorian Age, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray, was mostly regarded as an age of ______in English literature.


A. epic prose
B. drama
C. poetry
D. novels

[单项选择]The Victorian Age, the height of the British Empire, covered the years ______.


A. 1640 - 1688
B. 1790 - 1820
C. 1837 - 1901
D. 1930 - 1948

[单项选择]In Victorian Age, the______became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
A. poetry
B. novel
C. essay
D. prose

[单项选择]A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral ______, exposing all kinds of social evils.
A. revolutionaries
B. idealists
C. critics
D. defenders

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Few people would defend the Victorian attitude to children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud and company did away with all that and parents have been bewildered ever since. The child’s happiness is all-important, the psychologists say, but what about the parents’ happiness Parents suffer continually from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the place apart. A good "old-fashioned" spanking is out of the question: no modern child-rearing manual would permit such barbarity. The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout. Who knows what deep psychological wounds you might inflict The poor child may never recover from the dreadful traumatic experience. So it is that parents bend over backwards to avoid giving their children complexes which a hundred years ago hadn’t even been heard of. Certainly a child needs love, and a lo
A. stay away from the harmful influence of extreme permissiveness.
B. fall victim to deep psychological wounds they experience at childhood.
C. give full play to the development of the vigorous views of their own.
D. grow up to be more psychologically immature and irresponsible adults.