[BA 2nd Sem Question Papers, Dibrugarh University, 2017, English, Major, History of English Culture and Society - II]
2017 (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: 32/24
Time: 3 hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
1.
Give very brief answers/choose the correct options of the following (any
eight): 1x8=8
a) What
is the subtitle of Samuel Richardson’s novel, Pamela?
b) Who
is the British economist considered as the chief proponent of laissez faire?
c) Who
is considered as the father of English law reforms?
d) Who
is the author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater?
e) Who
wrote Middlemarch?
f) When
was the Great Exhibition held in London?
g) When
did the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre take place?
h) Which
one of the following is NOT a factor for the collapse of colonialism?
i.
Economic burden of maintaining colonies.
ii.
Nationalist movements in colonies.
iii.
Rapid industrialization of colonies.
i)
Who among the following is considered as a
modern novelist?
i.
Daniel Defoe
ii.
Virginia Woolf
iii.
George Eliot
j)
Who among the following musicians is NOT a
member of the Beatles Rock Group?
i.
John Lennon.
ii.
Uriah Heep.
iii.
George Harrison.
2.
Answer any three of the following: 4x3=12
(a)
Write a short note on Deism.
Or
Why
is the New-Classical Age also termed as the Augustan Age? Discuss the identical
features of the Age with the Roman era.
(b)
Assess Walter Scott as a novelist of the Romantic Age.
Or
Present
an evaluation of William Blake as a pioneer of Romantic poetry.
(c)
Write a brief note on Emily Bronte as a Victorian woman novelist.
Or
Present
a short note on Tennyson’s in Memoriam.
(d)
Discuss in brief how nationalist freedom struggles contributed to the process
of decolonization in the erstwhile colonies.
Or
Make
a short evaluation of D. H. Lawrence as a modern novelist.
3.
Answer any one of the following: 12
a) Discuss
the basic features of the Enlightenment.
b) Prepare
an illustrative note on New-Classical poetry with special reference to Samuel
Johnson.
4.
Answer any one of the following: 12
a) “If
we wish to distinguish a single characteristic which differentiates the English
Romantics from the poets of eighteenth century, it is to be found in the
importance which they attached to the imagination and in the special view which
they held for it.” Discuss the features of Romantic poetry in the light of this
statement by C. M. Bowra.
b) Prepare
an illustrative note on the Industrial Revolution in England.
5.
Answer any one of the following: 12
a) Write
an illustrative note on Victorian novel with special reference to Charles
Dickens.
b) Present
an assessment of Thomas Carlyle as a writer of prose of Victorian Age.
6.
Answer any one of the following: 12
a) Discuss
how George Bernard Shaw has appropriated the influence of Henrik Ibsen on
modern English drama.
b) Discuss
how the rise of English has helped in the consolidation of British colonialism.
Also Read: Dibrugarh University Question Papers
7.
Answer any one of the following: 12
a) Present
a note on post-colonial literature with reference to Salman Rushdie’s
Midnight’s Children.
b) Present
an assessment of John Osborne as a poet-war English dramatist.
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