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Victorian Literature, Culture, and Power - Coggle Diagram
Victorian Literature, Culture, and Power
Unified
- Follows a girl and her struggles in life
- She ends up married to the person she loves
- Demonstrates separate spheres as the two man characters live their lives outside of the other, but come together
- Also shows marriage plot as it is a progression of defeating the obstacles keeping them from being together
- This is classified as unified because in the end of the novel, the main characters end up unified via marriage.
John Ruskin, from “Of Queen’s Gardens”
Nancy Armstrong, from Desire and Domestic Fiction
Susan Meyer, “Indian Ink”
James Eli Adams, “‘The boundaries of social intercourse’”
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, from “A Review of Southey’s Colloquies”
Friedrich Engels, from The Great Towns
- Follows a woman who moves from the south to the north
- This really emphasizes different etiquette rules and reciprocal recognition
- The two main characters end up together, which is why this is unified
- It also follows the marriage plot
- You would think this is separated because of the different categories they’re in and how it’s confusing, but they manage to come together
Carolyn Dever, “Everywhere and Nowhere”
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Sarah Stickney Ellis, from “The Women of England”
Thomas Carlyle, from Past and Present
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Terry Eagleton, from Marxism and Literary Criticism
Separated
- Follows a queer trio then breaks to following a man and a portrait of himself
- Themes surrounding sexual inversion (homosexuality)
- Centers around the opposite idea of the repressive hypothesis: that there are outlets of confession where homosexual feelings can be released.
- Instead the main character, dorian, has a negative way to reacting that he will no longer be beautiful one day
- This is separated because dorian is so at odds with himself that he “murders” the portrait of himself, and then subsequently himself
- Causing the biggest form of separation: murder/suicide
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Cannon Schmitt, “‘The sun and moon were made to give them light’”
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Havelock Ellis, from Studies in the Psychology of Sex
Charles Kains Jackson, “The New Chivalry”
Ed Cohen, “Writing Gone Wilde”
- Two men on a search for “she who must be obeyed” or Ayesha
- This is centers around new imperialism, and that the, “enterprise of empire depends on the idea of having an empire”, and the white mans burden
- This also discusses the new woman and the femme fatale
- This is separated because in the end, there is no unified end goal, just a dead Ayesha, and the proof that men can not handle women who are confident, independent, and not all over them
Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden”
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Greg Buzwell, “Daughters of Decadence: the New Woman at the Victorian fin de siècle”
Michel Foucault, from The History of Sexuality, Volume One
Matthew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy
