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Victorian Literature - Coggle Diagram
Victorian Literature
main trends
Victorian Compromise
aim
instruct, entertain
without criticising society
characterised by
belief in men's goodness
main representatives
Charles Dickens
masterpieces
"Oliver Twist"
"David Copperfield"
"Hard Times"
"Great Expectations"
tragicomic novels
Brontë sisters
masterpieces
"Wuthering Heights"
Gothic tradition
unusual narrative technique
2 narrators
"Jane Eyre"
about womanhood
semi-autobiographical
Anti-Victorian reaction
characterised by
critique of this era
exposure of contradictions
pessimism or aestheticism
mainly influenced by
Darwinism
Realism
main representatives
Lewis Carroll
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
about childhood
probably nonsensical
Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"
theme of the double
criticised hypocrisy
Oscar Wilde
"The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Aestheticism
Art for art's sake
Thomas Hardy
"Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
pessimism, fatalism
Rudyard Kipling
colonial novelist
"The Jungle Book"
"Kim"
"The White Man's Burden"
literary criticism
Matthew Arnold
John Stuart Mill
scientific writing
Charles Darwin
"On the Origin of Species"
new view of the world
thx 2 "evolution"
The American Renaissance
greatest exponents
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Puritan moral
Herman Melville
"Moby Dick"
great variety of
styles
themes
mainly philosophical
like life and death
Mark Twain
"Tom Sawyer"
ab freedom, rebellion
Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
ab mingling of cultures
European and American
Victorian Poetry
emerging figures
Alfred Tennyson
"Ulysses"
on heroism and knowledge
Robert Browning
anticipated Modernism
esp on the human mind
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
celebrated
mysticism
sensuality
nostalgia
leading exponents
Dante Gabriele Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
William Morris
dramatic monologue
deep speech
by one character
main genre
novel
important thx 2
affordability
circulating libraries
entertainment and realism
portability
newspaper instalments
common features
complex, but not embarrassing issues
moral aim
realism
rich in content
3rd person omniscient narrator
three volumes
instructive, entertaining
American Poetry
greatest authors
Walt Whitman
"Leaves of Grass"
Emily Dickinson
"Because I could not Stop for Death"
Victorian Drama
two leading figures
Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
greatest merits
witty dialogues
universal themes
George Bernard Shaw
main interests
social critism
moral awareness
influenced by
Henrik Ibsen
"Mrs Warren's Profession"
unpleasant social issues