N A L A N D A O P E N U N I V E R S I T Y
M.A. English, Part-II
PAPER-IX
(19th Century Fiction and Non-Fiction)
Annual Examination, 2017
Time 3 Hours. Full Marks 80
Answer any Five Questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. What was Austen's attitude to the class-system of the time Explain with reference to
Emma.
2. Discuss the use of irony as a narrative strategy in Emma.
3. What picture of country life is presented by George Eliot Discuss.
4. Write a note on the irony of George Eliot with special reference to Middlemarch.
5. Dickens was a great master of fictional craft as well as a serious critic of social evils.
Discuss.
6. Evaluate Hard Times as a 'moral fable' about the evil consequences of utilitarian ways
of life.
7. Give an account of the Sociological background of Arnold's age.
8. Give, in brief, the main ideas of Culture and Anarchy.
9. How is culture supposed to save the world from anarchy Discuss.
10. Write a note on Jane Austen's prose style with special reference to Emma.