Authors
Victorian
Both Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker were born in ________________.
Dublin
______________ is a philosophical movement that rejects objective truth, morality, values, etc.
Nihilism
List two other works written by Dostoevsky besides Crime and Punishment.
The Brother Karamazov
Notes from Underground
The Idiot
Poor Folk
The Possessed
The Double
Memoirs from the House of the Dead
The Idylls of the King is written in ___________ verse.
blank
Dostoevsky struggled with a ________________ addiction
gambling
What is the Poets' Corner?
part of the south transept of Westminster Abbey, containing the tombs or monuments of many famous English writers
Dostoevsky's father probably died from _________________________.
murder (by his serfs)
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a play on the trope of the _____________________.
Faustian bargain (deal with the devil)
a/an ____________ is a repeating image or idea in a literary work, usually connected in some way to the work's theme or mood
motif
Oscar Wilde promoted the theory of _______________________ on his lecture tours of England and America.
aetheticism
Late 19th century European arts movement that held art need serve no political, didactic, or other purpose -- it simply exists for its own sake
aestheticism
Tennyson wrote his famous elegiac poem In Memoriam, A.H.H after the death of his friend _______________________.
Arthur Hallam
Dracula was published in _____________.
1897
Because it is written in the form of letters and other "documents, Dracula is considered a/an ________________ novel.
epistolary
Near the end of his life, Oscar Wilde was convicted of ______________________________ and sentenced to two years of hard labor.
homosexuality/gross indecency
Explain the concept of the Ubermensch.
Concept associated with nihilism
The "ubermensch" or "superman" is a strong, superior individual whose superiority gives him the ability and "right" to rise above all rules and limits. This superman creates meaning for himself through his own will.
Two historical sources for the character of Dracula were ____________________ and ______________________.
Vlad the Impaler
Countess Elizabeth Bathory
Idylls of the King idealizes the ___________________________.
medieval chivalry of the Middle Ages
define "found novel"
Bram Stoker worked as an unpaid writer for ____________________________________.
The Dublin Evening Mail
Human beings, guided by enlightened self-interest, will choose a fair and equal society
Actions taken to pursue society are always good, regardless of the means.
What happened to Dostoevsky because of his involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle?
The Petrashevsky Circle was an anti-government club. Members of the club were arrested, sentenced to death, had their sentences commuted to hard labor at the last instant, and were sent to Siberia to work for several years.
Aside from The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's most famous work is a play called _________________.
The Importance of Being Earnest
define "Gothic novel"
European Romantic fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror; a precursor of the modern horror genre