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50. The Victorian novel - Coggle Diagram
50. The Victorian novel
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The Victorian novel
The most important literary form. Libraries. Cheaper books. Novel was a product of the middle class, for entertainment. In magazines in instalments (plot, rhythm, structure).
Beginning of period: novel inferior to poetry. 19th C: wider audience, more respected.
Novelist had their feet on the ground, about society as it was, rational, realistic, plenty of things to talk about.
Jane Austen
Romantic period in time, Victorian in thought.
Middle-class provincial life, humor, understanding.
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice. Marriage: women's social status.
Walter Scott
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Waverley, Ivanhoe, Rob Roy.
Other subgenres. Writers tried other genres. Classification of authors: most outstanding subgenre. Not official subgenres.
Sensation novel
Popular. Horrors of Gothic fiction in modern, middle-class England. Family secrets, insanity, murder.
Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White, The Moonstone), Ellen Wood (East Lynne), Mary Elisabeth Braddon (Lady Audley's Secret), Charles Reade (Hard Crash)
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Women narrative
Brontë sisters: Victorian age, Romantic tradition. Anne was realistic, Charlotte and Emily Gothic novel. Passions and feelings.
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Charlotte: most prolific. Woman question. Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley
Emily: Wuthering Heights. Unusual structure, retrospection.
Elisabeth Gaskell: need for social reconciliation. Understanding between respectable and outcast. Mary Barton, Ruth, North and South
George Eliot: Mary Ann Evans. Psychological analysis. Working-class life. Life of insignificant rural people. Novel as starting point of discussion of moral issues. The Mill of Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch
Thomas Hardy
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Under the Greenwood Tree (comic account of rural society touched by progress), Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders, Tess of D'Ubervilles.
Galsworthy
Effects of poverty, restrictions of conventions.
Forsyte saga: collection of novels, middle-class family, effect of changing society.
Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling: Victorian, more related to British Empire.