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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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