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43 Cards in this Set
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The origin of species |
1859 |
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Act of Parliament by george IV |
1851 |
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Reform bill |
1831 |
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Reform act |
1867 |
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Great exhibition |
1851 |
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Carlyle |
Life of Schiller |
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Carlyle |
Sartor Resartus |
Reflexive discourses moulded around a learned of the philosophy of clothes Labyrinthic style (combo of English + German) |
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Dickens |
Sketches by Boz |
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Dickens |
The Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Circle |
1836 |
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Dickens |
Oliver Twist |
1837 reaction against "new poor law" |
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Nicholas Nickelby |
Child abuse |
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David Copperfield |
1849 |
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Dickens |
Bleak house Hard times Little Dorrit |
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A tale of 2 cities |
1. London NEWGATE prison (1770) 2. Paris BASTILLE prison (1780) |
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Great expectations |
1860 Sydney carton Pip |
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Our mutual friend |
John harmon |
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The mystery of edwin drood |
John Jasper |
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Martineau |
Poor law and papers illustrated Illustrations of political economy: 23 didactic stories Deerbrook: novel The hour and tje man: Fictional study of Toussaint |
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Gaskell |
Mary barton |
1848 Urban ills of late '40s |
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Gaskell |
North and South |
Margaret hale |
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Gaskell |
Cranford |
Miss matty |
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Gaskell |
Ruth |
Problem of the unmarried mother solved through her redemptive self-sacrifice |
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Gaskell |
Sylvia's lovers |
Sylvia robson Set @ Napoleonic wars Disappearance of a lover who is carried by a gang enforcing recruitment into Navy Humble ppl |
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Gaskell |
Wives and daughters |
Molly Gibson Examines family relationships and socisl class Delicate psychological study |
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Kingsley |
Yeast: a problem Alton Locke; tailor andbpoet Westward ho! |
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Disraeli |
Vivian grey Tje young Duke Contarini Fleming Alroy |
Fantasies of high society "Silver fork fiction" |
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Disraeli |
Trilogy: Coningsby or the new Generation Sybil or tje two Nations Tancredi or the 2 Crusades |
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Disraeli |
Lothair Endymion |
Satires English idealism and Italian nationalism |
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Macaulay |
History of England |
Scotland, Ireland, England Medieval and tudor are just a prelude Real subject: revolutions of 17th century and the effects of the glorious revolution |
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Thackeray |
Catherine |
Short, anti-heroic tale |
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Thackeray |
The luck of Barry Lyndon |
Narrator: Irish adventurer obliged to join the army at the time of the Seven Years War Deserts Becomes professional gambler in the courts of Europe Unhappy marriage w/wealthy aristocratic widow Congenital liar |
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Thackeray |
The book of snobs |
Ranges satirically over upper-middle class society Incoherent Narrator w/shifting morals and opinions |
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Thackeray |
Vanity Fair |
1847 no hero Becky Sharp |
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Thackeray |
The History of pendemis The History of Henry Esmond The newcomers The Virginians The adventuresnof Philip |
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Trollope |
Barchester Series ・La vendée: historical fiction ・ The Warden: set in a fictional English cathedral town; a local scandal becomes a national issue ・ Barchester towers: advent of a new Bishop and his evangelical wife ・ tje last chronicle of Barset: effects of ageing, death and ill-founded suspicions on an established community |
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Trollope |
Pallister series: ・Can you forgive her? ・the Eustace diamond ・Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux |
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Brontë sisters |
Poems by Currer, Ellis, Acton Bell |
1846 |
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Brontë CHARLOTTE |
Jane Eyre |
1847 realist fiction Reognizes the importance of sexual and marital interdependence MR. ROCHESTER vs ST. JOHN RIVERS |
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Brontë CHARLOTTE |
Shirley |
1849 condition of England novel Luddite agitation Shirley Keeldar |
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Brontë CHARLOTTE |
Villette (1853) |
Lucy Snowe It deals w/pressing issues of women's choice and women's employment Setting: urban Belgium |
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Brontë ANNE |
Agnes gray |
1847 governess-narrator endures loss of status, humiliation, snobbery Calm sense of her own moral justification |
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Brontë ANNE |
The tenant of wildfell hall |
1848 Helen Graham Story told by the means of a receding double narrative Events surrounding an unhappy marriage and the escape from it by its heroine |
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Brontë EMILY |
Wuthering Heights |
1847 Thrushcross Grange - passive gentility of the Lintons Wuthering Heights - classless energy of Heathcliff Conventional paraphernalia of GOTHIC Soul set at liberty through death Final poem "no coward soul is mine" |
