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The Victorian Novel, American Renaissaince - Coggle Diagram
The Victorian Novel
novel
the narrator is omnicient and explains to the reader what is right and wrong; the setting was the industrial city and the characters were realistic set in every day life
types of novel
Humanitarian novel or the novel of purpose: focus on the less fortunate in a sentimental way (Dickens)
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Literary nonsense: bizarre situations, created by Lewis Carroll with Alice in Wonderland
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Realistic novel: described the crisis in moral and religius field like Thomas Hardy and George Eliot
Colonial leterature: the white man has the duty to spread progess and civilisation (white man's burden) like in Kipling's poem
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the writers belonged to the middle class; periodicals grew and there was a growing interest in prose and novel
many women started writing and publishing, even if they had to use a pseudonym like George Eliot
American Renaissaince
literature tried to overcome puritan doctrin, even if it was hard to pass by like in Hawthorne's poems.
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