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OLLSCOIL na hÉIREANN, GAILLIMH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY
AUTUMN EXAMINATIONS, 2010/
THIRD & FOURTH ARTS EXAMINATION
EN384 Specialist Studies: The Nineteenth Century
Professor S. Matterson Professor H. Phillips Professor S. Ryder Dr. M. O Cinneide Dr E. Tilley
TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS AVOID DUPLICATION OF MATERIAL
ANSWER SECTION A AND ONE QUESTION FROM SECTION B.
You may make use of an author discussed in the mid-term assignment providing you do not make substantial reference to the same texts in your exam answers.
SECTION A:
Compare and contrast how BOTH Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton AND Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations deal with ONE of the following issues:
relations between the classes
the effects of poverty
SECTION B:
ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. DO NOT REPEAT MATERIAL USED TO ANSWER SECTION A
1. “Indeed, some would have called him a man not altogether typical of the middle-class male of a century wherein sordid ambition is the master-passion that seems to be taking the time- honoured place of love.” (from Thomas Hardy, “On the Western Circuit”).
Discuss how any two authors on the course depict a conflict between ambition/power and love.
OR
Discuss how any two authors on the course depict men and/or women who are “not altogether typical” of conventional gender models.
Contd./…
…/Contd.
2. Discuss the ways in which visual and verbal representation interact in the Victorian period. Reference should be made to two authors and two paintings referred to on the course. 3. JACK Yes, but you said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary.
ALGERNON
It usen't to be, I know - but I daresay it is now. Science is always making wonderful improvements in things.
Discuss how any two authors on the course deal with challenges to traditional ways of thinking.
4. That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now…
(From Browning, “My Last Duchess”)
Discuss the portrayal of heightened emotional states in the work of two poets on the course.
5. Her voice was low at first, being full of tears, But as it cleared, it grew full loud and shrill, Growing a windy shriek in all men's ears
(From Morris, “The Defence of Guenevere”)
Discuss how any two Victorian authors make effective use of speech and/or conversational structures in their work.
6. “ We have been all over India, mostly on foot. We have been boiler-fitters, engine-drivers, petty contractors, and all that, and we have decided that India isn’t big enough for such as us.” (from Rudyard Kipling, “The Man Who Would Be King”). How do any two authors on the course represent imperial ambition?
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