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A Survey of English Literature
Victorian Age & Poetry

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Slide 3 - Video

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"

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Young Victoria
Elderly Victoria

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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")

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The Victorian Age (3)
  • Scientific discovery and progress

  • Growing uncertainty and intellectual doubt"
  • Religious beliefs vs scientific evidence
  • Discovery of fossils
  • Theory of evolution 

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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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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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Important authors
  • Charles Dickens
  • The Brontë Sisters
  • George Eliot
  • Thomas Hardy
  1. poet + novelist / main theme: tragic lives of ordinary people
  2.  The Mayor of Casterbridge / Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Jane Austen 

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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)

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Victorian Era

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Position of women in Victorian Times
*Poor women had to work

*Bad living conditions

* no rights to vote, husband was the boss
Difference between the classes:
*Rich women were supposed to be "the Angel of the House"
*Well-furnished houses & enough food, servants
* no rights to vote, husband decided on everything

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Slide 15 - Video

rich children
raised by a nanny & spoiled 
hardly any contact with their parents
not allowed to eat at the same table
educated
needed to marry a person from the same class

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Lower classes 
- Bad living conditions lower classes/poor 
- Reform bills to improve situation labourers (child labour)
Max. 48 hours if 9 years old
Bit of education...
Bad health circumstances

Sufragettes: women's & votes
1918 :allowed to vote if 30 years old
1928: 21 years old
Right to vote for women & lower classes

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Slide 19 - Video

Female writers in the 19th century 
The Brontë sisters:
Charlotte, Emily and Anne

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A quick guide to the Brontë sisters 
What type of girls were these Brontë sisters:
little contact/shy
Emily sharp characters
Did not opt for marriage, governesses

wrote under a pseudonym
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Slide 22 - Video

Special for Dickens' novels (I)
serialised stories in journals (= installments)
cliffhangers
literature available for a wider audience 
(cheap + information for people from middle/higher classes )
ironical/satirical
absurd characters and absurd names

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