This phrase partly titles a book by Alice Jenkins about the treatment of space in Victorian literature. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this three-word phrase used in early 19th-century Britain to refer to the progress of scientific knowledge and the spread of education. Either of two similar phrases is acceptable.
ANSWER: march of mind [or march of intellect; accept Space and the ‘March of Mind’]
[10m] Dr. Folliott declares himself “all out of patience with this march of mind” in Crotchet Castle, a satirical novel by this author of Nightmare Abbey.
ANSWER: Thomas Love Peacock
[10e] The speaker imagines escaping from “this march of mind” and “the thoughts that shake mankind” in “Locksley Hall,” a poem by this author of “Crossing the Bar.”
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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