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VICTORIAN AGE - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN AGE
during this reign, the british overseas empire achieved its greatest size and power
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1837 ascended queen victoria at the age of 19, married prince Albert, and bore 9 children
novels are often published in instalments in newspaper, which are cheaper
they are engaging, adventurous plot, and are full of surpries and unexpected events
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people can borrow books from circulating libraries, novels are easy to carry and cheap
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THE VICTORIAN COMPROMISE: authors avoid better criticism and aim to instruct and entertain their reader using realism and a adventurous tone
with great literary production, can be divided into 2 main phases
THE ANTI-VICTORIAN REACTION: authors criticize the contradictions of their age, the authors are influenced by realism
EARLY VICTORIAN NOVELISTS: first phase included the works off writers who used PROSE to make realistic portrait of the society
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CHARLED DICKENS, BRONTE SISTERS
in this phase did not accept the vistorian compromise and denounce the evils of society without any reticence
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