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VICTORIAN AGE - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN AGE
VICTORIAN NOVEL
Novel became the leading genre
Public readings
Accepted moral standards together with a great liveliness
Most rappresentative novelist
Charles Dickens
is the most rappresentative novelist
"Hard Times"
inhumanity of the factory sistem
In the end chosses a tipically Victorian compromise
show
political incompetence
corruption
poverty and suffering of the masses
consciousness of social injustice
William Thackeray,
the author of "Vanity Fair"
lack of morals of the upper class
Novel of romantic love
Emily Bronte
and
Charlotte Bronte
"Wuthering Hrights"
Influenced gothic themes
George Eliot
, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans
"The Mill on the floss"
Crime and Horror novel
Robert Louis Stevenson
"the Strage Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"
Aestheticism
Oscar Wilde
"Picture of Dorian Gray"
Gabriele D'annunzio
Anti-Victorian trend
Cult of beauty
Colonial Novels
Came from and tolk about overseas colonies
Rudyard Kipling
the author of "Kim"
VICTORIAN DRAMA
Theatre-going was very popular
Melodrama: favoryte genre
Comic operas
William S.Gilbert
Arthur Sullivan
Comedy of manners
modern British drama really begins with
Oscar Wilde
"The importance of Being Earnest"
George Bernard Shaw
EARLY VICTORIAN POETRY
Robert Browning
dramatic monologue
Alfred Tennyson
dreamy past
"Ulysses"
The Aestethic Movement
In Europe during the latter part of the 19th century.
In Britain in 1890 :pen:
The culmination of Aestheticism in England
Oscar Wilde
. His best-known poem is
"The ballad of Reading goal"
Walter Pater
the author of "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood :!?:
Return to the purity
William Morris
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Cristina Georgina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"The blessed Damozel"
