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VICTORIAN NOVEL - Coggle Diagram

- - - - difficult to classify, it can be read in many different ways
        
        as a children's story
        
        masterpiece for all ages and all readers
      - example of nonsense poetry with the tematico of growing up and ah happy ending
  - - - "The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"
        
        short novel that explored the theme of the double
  - - - considered the manifesto of English aesteticism
        
        artistic and literary movement with developed In late victorian England and was based on the principle that art needs no kind of external or moral justification (Art for art's sake)
      - considered immoral and scandalous after his pubblication
        
        story of a rich, beautiful young man who sacrifices his soul to maintain his youth and beauty
- - - - chance to represent all the contradictions of the industrial revolution
      - instruct their readers and make them aware of the social evils of their time without using criticism
  - - - anti-victorian reaction
      - trought aestheticism
    - - novels centered around the idea of the "divided self" and of the duality of human nature
    - - denounce the evils of society
- - - - furerunner of pshycological fiction they explorer the world of feelings; general characterstics
        
        1- first person singular
        
        2- emotive use of language (gothic novel)
        
        3- nature
        
        4- symbolic use of language
        
        Charlotte
        
        "Jane Eyre"
        
        centered around the female characters Jane who fall in love with a mysterious man called rochester
        
        the main theme is womanhood and opens a window on the dark side of human personality
        
        Emily
        
        "wutering heights"
        
        an extraordinary narrative experiment, centered on the plot of the impossible love between Headcliff and Catherine
        
        elements from the gothic tradition