Multiple choice

As a scholarly discipline littérature comparée matured in France in the ________ of the nineteenth century.

  1. first and second decades

  2. third and fourth decades

  3. fifth and sixth decades

  4. seventh and eight decades
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Explanation

Comparative literature as an academic discipline began to take formal shape in France during the 1820s and 1830s, which corresponds to the third and fourth decades of the nineteenth century.

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