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THE VITORIAN PERIOD (1832 - 1901) (Drama (Kinds: melodrama, comedy,…
THE VITORIAN PERIOD (1832 - 1901)
Liturature
Trend
(criticize society + social evil):
critical socialism
prose > poetry
Great
women
authors: The Bronte Sis,
George Elliot
, Ellizabeth Barett Browning
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
: revolution against the
ugliness
of contemporary life
Aestheticism
: literature = art + worth living for
Drama
Kinds: melodrama, comedy, burlesque
Domestic melodrama: central
A
revival
of drama (
realistic
drama): 1860 w'
Tom Robertson
's plays
Concept of the
"plays of ideas"
(thanks to the
translation
of
Norwegian playwright
,
Henrick Ibsen
New flood of ideas:
socialist + aesthetic
-> re-evolution of artistic expression in helping to formulate public opinion
Oscar Wilde
's plays
brilliantly witty + epigrammatic comedies
Poetry
(period of transition)
Romantic ferment
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barret
Matthew Arnold
Nostalgia
William Morris
Swinburne
Skepticism
Thomas Hardy
Gerald Manley Hopkin
Prose
Themes
Love:
humanity
+ nature
Contrast
bt
haves / haves not
Sympathy of misery
Satirizing
the upper class's
pride + hypocrisy (đạo đức giả) + snobbishness (sự màu mè) + selfishness + wickedness
the
triumph
of the novel ->
expansion
: range + scope
The d.v.lopemnt of
fancy writing
(2nd 1/2 of 19th cen)
Genres
: scifi, the detective story, ghost stories, utopian writing, fantasy wrt 4 childern
Famous Works
Lewis Carrols
: Alice in wonderland + Through the looking mirror
Conan Doyle
: Sherlock Homes stories
Wilke Collins
: Moon Stone
Authors
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
Bleak house
The Pickwick Paper