Round 11: Tossup 1

Valerie Purton argued that a literary “tradition” described by this adjective was continued by Charles Dickens to accentuate his darker or comic scenes. Oliver Goldsmith (-5[1])criticized comedies described by this adjective as “the most easily written” in an essay that contrasts them with “laughing” comedies. A novel whose title contains this adjective ends mid-sentence as the protagonist catches (10[1])hold of a chambermaid. This (10[1])adjective describes a popular genre of emotionally expressive novels in the 18th and 19th centuries such as The Man of Feeling and The Vicar of Wakefield. A novel (-5[1])about Parson Yorick’s travels by Laurence Sterne is titled for this type of “Journey.” For 10 points, Gustave Flaubert’s novel about Frédéric Moreau is titled (10[1])for what sort of “Education”? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[5])

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