According to Dr. Taormina, Victorian novelists generally________________?
Correct answer: B. accepted middle class values.
- A. wanted to subvert middle class values.
- B. accepted middle class values.
- C. wrote in a hyperrealistic fashion.
- D. had a negative view of human nature.
Explanation
Victorian fiction generally worked within, rather than openly rejecting, the moral and social assumptions of the expanding middle class. Although some novelists criticised particular abuses, subversion of middle-class values was not the general tendency.
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