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Victorian Novel and Aestheticism - Coggle Diagram
Victorian Novel and Aestheticism
Victorian writers
tended to belong to the middle class and therefore
they talked about things their middle class readers were interested in
Early Victorian novelists
thought they had a
moral
and
social responsibility
in their novels there is a clear distinction between right and wrong
(Didacticism)
They wrote about the social changes that had occurred highlighting the
Their novels are also characterised by an omniscient narrator, the city as setting and realistic characters
The Aesthetic
movement
began in France with Gautier’s ideas
redefine the role of art and spread the expression ‘Art for Art’s sake’ that is at the
opposite of the idea of art at the core of
Didacticism
The main theorist of the movement in Britain is
Walter Pater
Main features of the Aesthetic
works are
Excessive attention to the self
Hedonist and sensuous attitude
Perversity in subject matter
Perversity in subject matter
Disenchantment with contemporary society
Evocative use of language
Types of novels
published in the Victorian age are
the humanitarian novel
the novel of formation
t
he novel of manners
literary nonsense
exotic novel