choose one of the questions which are provided in the Order description, and use the provided texts in order to wite the essay

Order Description

-Directly relevant to the title; also able to address the implications, assumptions and nuances of the title.
-Very well written with standard spelling and syntax, lucid and resourceful style, and appropriate format and bibliography.
-Very good analysis of the evidence, arguments or other material considered, resulting in clear and illuminating conclusions.
-Coherent and logically structured, making creative use of an appropriate mode of argument and / or theoretical model(s).
-Distinctive work, showing independent thought and critical engagement with alternative views.
-Makes effective use of an excellent knowledge and thorough understanding of relevant material.
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QUESTIONS:
1. By means of close reference to their texts, compare and contrast the representation of ‘nature’ in the work of two Romantic authors, examining how the natural world serves as a site for wider ‘Romantic’ concerns.
2. With reference to AT LEAST TWO texts/writers studied on the module, write an essay on the themes of liberty and repression, in terms of thought, feeling and/or movement.
3. Examine the different responses of two writers, one ‘Romantic,’ one ‘Victorian’ to political and social changes.
4. ‘The motive of human society is in the last resort an economic one’ (Sigmund Freud). Discuss nineteenth-century attitudes towards notions of economic progress and social concerns, particularly class and imperialism, in relation to AT LEAST TWO texts/writers studied on this module.
5. ‘A lady of masculine mind’ (Wilkie Collins). With reference to AT LEAST TWO texts/writers studied on this module, discuss social attitudes towards gender.
6. ‘The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it’ (John Stuart Mill). With reference to AT LEAST TWO texts/writers studied on this module, discuss the relationship between ‘state’ and ‘individual.’
7. Mary Shelley described her novel Frankenstein as a ‘hideous progeny.’ With reference to AT LEAST TWO texts/writers studied on this module, discuss the concept of ‘monstrosity’ in the writing of the nineteenth century.