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21 Cards in this Set
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Queen Victoria takes the throne in 1837
Rapid population growth Porn & Prostitution huge in beg. of century, disease de-popularized. Prosperity depended on exploitation of lower classes and expanding the economy Growing divisions between rich and poor Growing working class Long working hours, unsanitary and dangerous workshops, child labor Many social and economical constraints on women Peace in England Rapid period of change without knowing future England is prosperous, potato famine in Ireland Darwinism Intellectualism Conventional viewpoints challenged |
Victorian Time Period 1832-1901
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Prosperity,
factory acts of parliament, technological progress, Charles Darwin, Utilitarians, explode of sciences |
Mid-Victorian, Age of Improvement
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economy stable, colonization of africa and asia, science and technology continues, end of century: anxiety
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Late Victorian period
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Don't experiment, form conscious, rise in prose (cheaper printing, literacy), rise in women writers
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Characteristics of Victorian Literature
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Break away from tradition
Radical use of language (some authors started to make up words) Fragmentation and disillusionment (what is life about? where do we find meaning?) Low culture content brought into high brow form of poetry Experimentation with form, language, content Content now coming from new field of knowledge (psychoanalysis, anthropology) Representing how the mind works by containing ideas with no transitions or connections |
Modernist Time Period
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A poem in which we overhear what a character says in a dramatic situation. Often the character unintentionally reveals things about himself
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Dramatic Monologue
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A poem that forcefully expresses an emotion or records a moment of insight
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Lyric Poem
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To make fun of something to raise society's awareness of it.
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Satire
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how the artist came to be
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kinsdleroman or
rinsdleroman |
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coming of age
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bildungsroman
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Created the "Nonsense" genre with nonsense verse.
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Lewis Carroll
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rural british idiom/vernacular
accents suggesting added or replaced syllables detailed landscapes He's a pessimist, skeptic, moral irony, thinks life is wasted, a modernist rooted in victorian era. *Darkling Thrush-(in the dark) ignorance is bliss *Hap-(happenstance) irony of destiny in a world ruled by chance. seeks understanding but is disappointed. *Neutral tones- dying love, feelings lost. |
Thomas Hardy
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Jesuit Priest-God is in everything of beauty, poetry modernist in vict. cannon, but is romantic.
combines aesthetics & consciousness, individualism lines joined by long dashes innovative language/not standard words *Gods Grandeur-visual/tactile, light/dark, pure/impure. Imagery-foil, oil oozing, fire, bright, dangerous? *Pied Beauty-theme of color, gods creation *Windhover (falcon)-theme-flying Writes in the moment |
Gerard Hopkins
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Wrote "The Man Who Would Be King" and "The White Man's Burden"
Thought of as Imperialist British author but showed both + and - sides of imperialism. Lived in India, educated in England. Returned to India @ 17 and worked for newspaper. |
Rudyard Kipling
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Created the "Nonsense" genre with nonsense verse.
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Edward Lear
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*Goblin Market; allegory for Victorian Gender roles, had themes of sin and temptation, childrens story.
*Artists Studio-movement and paralyzation of time/beauty *Apple Gathering-lost love, single vs. couples *Uphill-earthly life & heaven Pious, 10 yrs charity in fallen womens prison |
Christina Rossetti
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Sensual artist, painted 2 women, pre-raphaelite.
*Blessed damozel (painting title)-afterlife/love *bodys beaut (painting title)-Adams 1st wife/witch *Jenny-love of whore, socially wrong but wont stop, cannot have really so pays. *nuptial sleep-thought to be "lewd sensuality", wedding night. *souls beaut (painting title)-prophet, wrote on palm leaves. |
Dante Rossetti
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*Jekyll & Hyde-
2 selves, good vs evil, gap in logic; hyde is separate so not jekylls fault. deep desires, evil other. |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Art for Arts sake
Worship beauty, sensual, aesthetics, no moral msg. Massacast Most likely to be found in a "pleasure palace" *Hymn Prosperine-Queen of underworld *Hermaphrodites-meet, marry, no kids, sorrow, death from broken heart. *Ave atque Vale (hale & farewell)- Baudelaire |
A. Charles Swinburne
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*Dorian Gray- Like Jekyll/Hyde, evil other, eternal youth, hedonism, worship senses, shallow & soulless,
A "bildungsroman" (German) coming of age |
Oscar Wilde
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End-Of-The-Century
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fin du siècle
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