Blok 2 - Literary History: Romanticism + Victorian age

1798 - 1840
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1798 - 1840

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OBJECTIVES
  • You can situate the Romantic period in time and space.
  • You can sum up characteristics of the Romantic period.
  • You can compare the Romantic period and its previous literary period.
  • You can briefly explain the Victorian period.  

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CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTICISM
Look at the slides;
Watch the video
Answer the questions

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Would you rather have lived during the Enlightenment or during the Romantic Era?
during the Enlightenment
during the Romantic Era

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Enlightenment or Romantic Era?
(Also look at the attributes!)
Enlightenment
Romanic Era

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Dream, heaven, angels
Which characteristics of the Romantic Era does this painting evoke?

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countryside - nature
Which characteristics of the Romantic Era does this painting evoke?

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Evaluation

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Romanticism emerged as a reaction against ...
A
The nuclear arms race
B
The Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis
C
The spread of the Black Plague
D
The Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution

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After what big event in 1789 did Romanticism emerge?
A
World war I
B
The French revolution
C
Industrial Revolution
D
The Boston tea party

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What is NOT an important key feature of Romanticism?
A
Politics
B
Nature
C
Passion for love
D
Supernatural

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Which characteristic doesn't belong to the Romantic Period
A
nature
B
innocence
C
supernatural
D
war

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When did the Romantic period take place?
A
1750-1850
B
1789-1832
C
1830-1900
D
1066 - 1502

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  • EXTENSION









  • The Victorian Era

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The Victorian Age 
1830-1900

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The Victorian Age
  • Started around 1830 ended in early 20th century
  • Named after Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901)
  • Britain: great economic and political power: "The empire on which the sun never set" - the white men's burden
  • From 1830s: laws aimed at reform (Reform Bills, Poor Laws, educational laws)
  • Yet: period of great social inequality: rich vs poor ("the two nations", men vs women ("Victorian double standard")

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Queen Victoria (1819-1901)  Reign: 1837-1901
  • Longest reign in British history after Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Queen at the age of 18.
  • She restored people’s faith in the monarchy after a series of horrible leaders.
  • Victoria married a German prince, Albert, who became Prince-consort.
  • After he died in 1861, she sank into a deep depression and wore black every day for the rest of her life.

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The British Empire
Where the sun never sets
  • Greatest nation on Earth
  • Cf. image
  • Very large navy and merchant fleet 
  • The English felt it was their duty to bring English values, laws, customs, and religion to the “savage” races around the world

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Social inequality
  • Population increase 
  • Search for employment
  • Child Labour & Child crime
  • Housing shortage
  • Slum housing
  • Poor sanitary conditions
  • Destitution
  • Homeless children
  • Workhouses

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Victorian literature - the novel
  • The age of the novel
  • Growing audience for "true stories"
  • Greater wealth (rise of the middle classes)
  • Better education (rise in literacy)
  • Instalment system (novels published in serial form)

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Victorian literature - Poetry
  • A continuation of the Romantic period
  • Themes: nature  / the past / the human spirit

  • Important poets:
  1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
  2. Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

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Important authors
  • Charles Dickens
  • The Brontë Sisters
  • George Eliot
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Oscar Wilde

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