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Engl 2101 test 2

Terms in this set (17)

the industrial revolution
the development which took place in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chiefly owing to the introduction of new or improved machinery and large-scale production methods
a captain of industry
an industrial magnate
anarchy
absence of government, each individual has absolute liberty
a pre-raphaelite
any of a group of 19th-century British painters who attempted to produce work in the manner prevalent before the time of the Italian artist Raphael
an aesthete
a person who professes a special or superior appreciation of what is beautiful
1832
the First Reform Bill gave men who owned property producing income of ten pounds or more the right to vote
1837
Victoria became queen
1846
the Corn Laws, which protected the high price of grain, were repealed
1859
Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was first published
14 February 1895
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was first staged
from Sartor Resartus and Captains of Industry
Thomas Carlyle
The Stones of Venice
John Ruskin
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
Mariana and The Lady of Shalott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Blessed Damozel
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
from Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Walter Pater
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
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