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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire
Good Love/
Bad Love
The Novel Idea of Class Conflict
My Day Job is Critic
100
Dracula
Who is Bram Stoker? (Mina Harker-Murray)
100
Heart of Darkness. Identify another text written by this author.
Who is Joseph Conrad? Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo
100
These two siblings are responsible for writing sonnets and poetry that was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite era.
Who is Christina and Dante Rossetti?
100
Oliver Twist. Identify two other novels written by this author.
Who is Charles Dickens? Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times
100
"Dover Beach" (poem) and he is also responsible for writing criticism associated with the literary theory known as Old Historicism.
Who is Matthew Arnold?
200
"A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of Four", "Hound of the Baskervilles"
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? (Professor Moriarty)
200
"White Man's Burden" (poem). Identify another work written by this author.
Who is Rudyard Kipling? The Jungle Book, Gunga Din (poem), The Man Who Would Be King
200
"My Last Duchess"
Who is Robert Browning?
200
Middlemarch
Who is George Eliot?
200
A critic, who wrote extensively on Shakespeare's plays and Victorian theater, doubled as a playwright who authored "Pygmalion" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession".
Who is George Bernard Shaw?
300
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Identify two other texts written by this author.
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson? Treasure Island and Kidnapped
300
Jane Eyre. (Seriously, the NAEL stated that this book is an example of Victorian Imperialism)
Who is Charlotte Bronte?
300
"Idylls of the King" (epic poetry)
Who is Alfred Lord Tennyson?
300
"The Way We Live Now" and "The American Senator"
Who is Anthony Trollope?
300
His book, "The French Revolution:A History", was quite influential to Dickens's Tale of Two Cities as well as other Victorian writers of the age. Extra Points: What American transcendentalist was enamored with this individual?
Who is Thomas Carlyle? Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson was quite fond of Carlyle and his writings.
400
The Picture of Dorian Gray. Name two other pieces by this author.
Who is Oscar Wilde? The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
400
"Invictus".
Who is William Ernest Henley? Although not a colonial poem per se, the poem has now become a mantra for Nelson Mandela and been associated with South African decolonization.
400
"Modern Love". (However, the NAEL only anthologized the sonnet, "Lucifer in Starlight")
Who is George Meredith?
400
Vanity Fair
Who is William Thackeray?
400
He was a leading art critic who also pontificated on philosophy in such texts as "The Seven Lamps of Architecture" and "The Stones of Venice". The term "pathetic fallacy" (another key term for comps!) is ascribed to him as it was used in "Modern Painters".
Who is John Ruskin?
500
The Invisible Man. Identify two other texts by this author.
Who is H.G. Wells? The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Island of Dr. Moreau
500
H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and Iolanthe (all plays)
Who is Gilbert and Sullivan? NAEL (7th edition) anthologizes "When Britain Really Ruled the Waves" which is a chorus found in Iolanthe.
500
"Aurora Leigh". Name two more texts written by this author.
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning? Songs from the Portuguese
500
The Woman in White. Identify two additional titles by this same author.
Who is Wilkie Collins? The Moonstone, No Name, and Basil.
500
"Poems and Ballads" made him a poet fit for undergraduate studies, and his poetry would make him a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1903-1907. He created the poetic form "roundel". However, he is also known for his criticism of Shakespeare and Jonson.
Who is Algernon Charles Swinburne?