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Victorian period

1837-1901; named after Queen Victoria

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The Golden Age: key events

first urban industrial society, British Empire (India, Canada, Austraia), rising middle class & socio-political reforms, develoment of new media & new reading public

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The Age of Doubt: key events

crisis of faith, social & environmental problems (child labour, famine), pollution, Britain losing its victorian glory

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Victorian prudery & hypocrisy

sexuality & profanity unaccepted => censorship & intolerance

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Victorian major authors

Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickiens, Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Victorian literature: features

fiction = dominant form; attention to details, large social world, focus on protagonist who seeks his place in a society

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Charles Dickiens: biography

1812-1870; prolific writer

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Charles Dickiens: works

Pickwick Papers (1836), Oliver Twist (1837), A Christmas Carol (1843), Great Expectations (1860-61), Dombey and Son (1846), Hard Times (1854)

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Victorian Poetry

most respected genre, rise of dramatic monologue, narrative verse

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Dramatic monologue

monologue addressed to reader in which speaker reveals his/her views and feelings

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Narrative verse

storytelling in verse

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Alfred Lord Tennyson: biography

1809-1892; spokesman of that age

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What poem was written in response to newspaper article on Battle of Balaclava (1854)?

“The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1854) by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Battle of Balaclava

25 Oct 1854; key battle in Crimean War, British army vs Russia

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Victorian drama: intrio

frivolous plays; only in late Victorian era

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Victorian drama: works

Pygmalion (1916) by George Bernard Shaw; Gilbert and Sullivan

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Alfred Lord Tennyson: works

Lady of Shalott (1833;1842), Idylls of the King (1888)

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William Makepeace Thackeray

1811-1863; Vanity Fair (1847-1848)

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Brontë sisters

Anne, Charlotte, Emily; Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte

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George Eliot

(Mary Ann Evans) 1819-1880; Middlemarch (1871-72)

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Aestheticism

1880s-1890s; art for art’s sake, art has no moral content; The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

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fantasy writing (author and work)

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

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Novels of Escapism (author and work)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894); Treasure Island (1883)

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Novels of Sensation (author and work)

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889); The Woman in White (1860)

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