Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period's contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
Correct answer: A. Anthony Trollope
- A. Anthony Trollope
- B. Charles Dickens
- C. John Ruskin
- D. Friedrich Engels
Explanation
Anthony Trollope is associated with the comfortable, commercially prosperous middle-class world of mid-Victorian England. Dickens remained much more sharply critical of poverty and social injustice, while Ruskin and Engels were not novelists in this sense.
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