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LATE VICTORIAN NOVELISTS - Coggle Diagram
LATE VICTORIAN NOVELISTS
THE REALISTIC NOVEL
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THOMAS HARDY
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rural landscapes; nature is not only the background, but it's essential to his novels)
nature = hostile power, indifferent to man's destiny
love = often ends in disillusionment and failure, destroyed by institutions like marriage or by society or even more often by Fate
GEORGE ELIOT
her novels are usually set in Warwick countryside, where she was born and grew up
her main characters are usually townspeople, peasants or labourers - although of humble social origins her characters are complex and torn by moral conflicts
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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL
captured the monstrous, illogical aspects of life
described the "double", the duality of Victorian society and present in every individual
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BACK DOOR = metaphor for the evil that lies behind the beautiful facade of civilisation and refinement.
COLONIAL LITERATURE
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novels set in the distant lands colonised by the English: colonialism is the background of the narrative