historical novel, novel of manners, victorian compromise
historical
flashback, 3 person narrator
particular setting, historical details, searching national identity
Walter Scott found this genre
Ivanhoe (1820), Waverley (1814)
traveller meet a new ethnic group, this aspect change his live
interests about
Glorius revolution
Scottish history, personal problems
Anglon Saxon vs Norman wars
2 different languages
novels about normal people, adventure experiences
novel of manners, 3 person narrator
set in middle class society
aristocrazy lost power
based on the premise
themes
complication of love
elaborate socialworld
marriage
dialoge is the central role
passion and emotions aren't expressed directly but subtly/obliquely
Victorian Compromise
certain values
were moralisers
sense of duty with good keeping and behaviour
respectability of both morality/ hypocrisy severity and conformity to social standards, regular to attendance charitable
need to work hard
philantropy= phenomenon with different interests
with charity they could save dissolute
burgeois ideas
sense of family
husband dominant
women also obey to hum
subservience of women
concept of "fallen woman"
single women with a child suffered= the worst of the society
denounce sex and nudity
civic pride and national fervour
patriottism= influenced by racial superiority
powerful differences
intellectual
physical
idea of "jingoism", economic progress, good view for Victorians
set in Middle Age es: thackeray
about social problems
humanitarianism novel ( Dickens)
2 part: poets are critical: analysis of setting,characters, ecc.... Eliot, Carrol, Kipling and Stevenson
1 part: aren't critical to system: Dickens, Tackeray
novels
of formation: Bronte/Dickens
psychological= Kipling and Stevenson= Victorian society
social problems: Graskell and Dickens= humanitarianism novel
realistic novel= Hardly, Eliot
of manners: Tackeray, social problems
nonsensical novel= Carrol and Lear
women novel= Austen and Eliot