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English literature: Romantic Period and Victorian Age (Jane Austen (1775…

- - - - Detailed information
  - - - Charlotte (1816-1855) and Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
        
        Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
        
        Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
        
        At a young age, Hardy witnessed starvation, child mortality, cruelty and deportation to distant colonies.
        
        There was so much commotion about Jude the Obscure, Hardy swore to never write another novel.
        
        He campaigned for children's rights, education and other social forms.
        
        Schooled at home --> no contact with the outside world.
        
        Living in their own world of fantasy and imagination.
        
        To Brussel to learn French
      - First one to write a short story
        
        Inventor of the detective fiction genre
        
        Science fiction
        
        Central figure of Romanticism
      - Authors Victorian Age
    - - Frankenstein
- - - - Difficult childhood
        
        Opium
        
        Start of the Romantic movement
        
        Malta
    - - Moved to simple things that can make people happy: birds, flowers, ordinary people, the countryside - nature. This was his most successful work.
        
        After the death of two of his children and his brother, Wordsworth moved back to the darker poetry
- - - - Lord Byron (1788-1824)
        
        Broke all the conventions of the day
        
        Eccentric, flamboyant, impulsive and controversial
        
        More a man of action, than a philosopher
      - Poems were full of dark and deep soul-searching
        
        Radical, idealistic and emotional
        
        Moved to Italy
    - - Sensual beauty