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The Aesthetic Movement, The Late Victorian Novel - Coggle Diagram
The Aesthetic Movement
In the second half of the 19 century; the traditional Victorian values of strict morality and respectability were challenged by a new artistic and literary movement, Aestheticism.
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It had to deal with the elevation of taste and the pursuit of beauty, which was the most important element in life.
The famous motto, Art for Art's Sake, meant praising the sensual qualities of art and the sensation of pleasure art could create.
This went against the Victorian belief according to which literature and art should provide important ethical rules
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The Late Victorian Novel
The Victorian novelists openly criticized the 'Victorian compromise, and refused the optimistic view of man and progress which had characterized the first half of the century.
Their new realism was influenced by Social Darwinism, which made them mirror a society linked to a growing crisis both in the moral and religious fields.
Childhood had been one of the favorite themes of Victorian novels, and the 1860s were the golden age of children's literature
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Many classic books for children were published then, such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
In the second half of the 19 century, as policemen and detectives became more visible and respectable in society, crime fiction became popular as a genre.
In a culture of growing anxieties about crime, the detective figure turned out to be a middle-class hero of order and resolution.
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