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VICTORIAN AGE - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN AGE
late victorian novelist
evils of society
the dark side of the Victorian Age was made visible
duality of human nature
pessimistic point of view
More realistic and stronger criticism
aestheticism
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Aestheticism
Lewis Carroll
Stevenson
Kipling
English society
British Empire
Victore Empress of India
cultural and politics trends
social darwinism
late victorian thinkers
disraeli & gladstone (tories & whigs)
prosperity
overcrowd
slums
pleasant/unpleasant, appearance/reality
Victorian compromise
decency
the railway boom
optimism, stability, faith in progress
different type of women
early victorian novelist
realistic portrait of society
contradiction but no criticism
instruct
Charles Dickens
Bronte sisters
victorian novel
religious beliefs in contraddictions:
two main trends
victorian compromise
they wanted to instruct/entertain
family believe in faith and progress
anti-victorian reaction
darwinism - realism - positivism
triumph of the novel
increase the number of literate people
people could borrow books from "circulating libraries"
the novels were portable object
women read most because they were at home
victorian novels were published in
installments
to reduce their cost (periodic episodes)
common features
stilistic and thematic point of view
readers need to be entertained and confronted with complex but not embarrassing issues
authors make the readers reflect on the incongruences of the word which they live
novels:
crear moral aim
writers:
exemplars of virtue in their public and private life
plots
: complex, andventures
rich in characters:
setting, cities/indusrial revolution
stories told by a 3rd person omniscient narrator, happy ending, evil were punish
structured in 3 volumes