11. Which of the following is not the representative of Romanticism? （       ）

A. Percy Shelley.                                          B. Edmund Spenser.

C. John Keats.                                             D. Samuel Coleridge.

12. Walter Scott established his novels as a worthwhile fictional form and set the personal dilemmas of his characters against  （       ）

A. a background of contemporary things.

B. a background of the Renaissance.

C. a background of historical things.

D. a background of modern events.

13. Most of Wordsworth’s short poems write about subjects of  （       ）

A. nature and human life.                              B. society and politics.

C. love and beauty .                                      D. society and history.

14. In her novels, Jane Austen is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between

（       ）

A. men and women in love.

B. men and women in conflict.

C. mothers and daughters in love.

D. fathers and sons in conflict.

15. The Victorian period in England saw  （       ）

A. the Industrial Revolution

B. a time of poverty and unstability

C. the prosperity of romantic novels

D. the forces of the critical realists