What is LessonUp
Search
Channels
AI tools
Beta
Log in
Register
‹
Return to search
6V Literature - Victorian Age & Poetry
A Survey of English Literature
Victorian Age & Poetry
1 / 15
next
Slide 1:
Slide
Engels
Middelbare school
vwo
Leerjaar 6
This lesson contains
15 slides
, with
text slides
and
1 video
.
Lesson duration is:
50 min
Start lesson
Save
Share
Print lesson
Items in this lesson
A Survey of English Literature
Victorian Age & Poetry
Slide 1 - Slide
Slide 2 - Video
Today's lesson
Introduction to the Victorian Age
Two Victorian poems:
-
Ulysses
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
-
My Last Duchess
by Robert Browning
Slide 3 - Slide
The Victorian Age (1)
Started around
1830
ended in early 20th century
Named after
Queen Victoria
(1837 - 1901)
Britain: great economic and political power
"The workshop of the world"
"The empire on which the sun never set"
Slide 4 - Slide
Young Victoria
Elderly Victoria
Slide 5 - Slide
Slide 6 - Slide
The Victorian Age (2)
Empire building
: Britain's national destiny
Sense of
moral superiority
(white man'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")
Slide 7 - Slide
The Victorian Age (3)
Scientific discovery and progress
Growing uncertainty and intellectual doubt
Religious beliefs vs scientific evidence
Discovery of fossils
Theory of evolution
Slide 8 - Slide
Victorian literature - Poetry
A continuation of the Romantic period
Themes: nature / the past / the human spirit
Important poets:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Slide 9 - Slide
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)
Slide 10 - Slide
Important authors
Charles Dickens
The Brontë Sisters
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
poet + novelist / main theme: tragic lives of ordinary people
The Mayor of Casterbridge / Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Jane Austen
Slide 11 - Slide
Important authors - 2
Henry James (
The Portrait of a Lady
)
Joseph Conrad (
Heart of Darkness
)
Sir Arthur Canon Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
HG Wells (
The Time Machine / The Invisible Man / The War of the Worlds
)
Slide 12 - Slide
Ulysses
Read the poem (p. 45-47)
Do Assignment 21
timer
15:00
Slide 13 - Slide
Slide 14 - Slide
My Last Duchess
Read the poem (p. 48-49)
Do Assignment 7 (p. 50)
timer
15:00
Slide 15 - Slide
More lessons like this
Literature- theory
August 2022
- Lesson with
112 slides
Engels
Middelbare school
vwo
Leerjaar 4
Annotation
August 2022
- Lesson with
3 slides
Engels
Middelbare school
What's in a Word? Amanda Gorman etc.
June 2022
- Lesson with
47 slides
Engels
Middelbare school
havo, vwo
Leerjaar 4,5
Examentraining HC1
March 2025
- Lesson with
22 slides
Geschiedenis
Middelbare school
havo
Leerjaar 5
Chapter 6: Parliament
November 2024
- Lesson with
32 slides
by
Seneca Burgerschap
Maatschappijleer
Middelbare school
havo
Leerjaar 5
Seneca Burgerschap
Chapter 5: The Rule of Law
November 2024
- Lesson with
34 slides
by
Seneca Burgerschap
Maatschappijleer
Middelbare school
havo
Leerjaar 5
Seneca Burgerschap
Chapter 3: Democracy
November 2024
- Lesson with
118 slides
by
Seneca Burgerschap
Maatschappijleer
Middelbare school
havo
Leerjaar 5
Seneca Burgerschap
nouns+prepositions quiz
August 2022
- Lesson with
31 slides
Engels
Middelbare school
havo
Leerjaar 4