A novel describing the progress of a character from childhood to maturity and focusing on the relationship between characters, education, experience and identity epitomises (=be perfect example of a quality) this type of plots the journey through troubled childhood and adolescence is central in this type of novel, a novel of formation, a form adapted in different ways in novels.
A sub-genre of the 19th century novel that tells the life of the hero/heroine from childhood to adulthood, narrating the experience that cuase him/her to mature and evolve.
A fictional genre that typically tells the story of the main character from childhood; a "novel of formation". Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre or Dickens' Great Expectations are Victorian examples of this narrative form.
An example of the Victorian multi-plotted novel by Dickens, Thackeray or Elit.
A sub-genre of the Victorian novel which, in the 1830s and 1840s in which authors "sought overtly to reflect and respond to the wide-ranging problems encountered by a newly urban and industrial nation.
A sub-genre of Victorian novels published mostly during the 1840s and concerned with socio-economic problems such as urban development or the effects of industrialisation; examples include Charlotte Brontë's Shirley or Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South.
this Time of Troubles (The Early Victorian Period) present in literature as well, many novels
Charles Kingsley
Elizabeth Gaskell
Benjamin Disraeli Sybil, The Two Nations (the rich and the poor).
type of writings in Victorian era, deal with class relationship, conflict and the condition of England, written by and addressed to, members of the middle classes.
A sub-genre of the Victorian novel which, in the 1830s and 1840s, sought to reflect and respond to the wide-ranging problems encountered by a newly urban and industrial nation.
The novel by Charles Dickens that, because of its great commercial success, caused serialisation of fictional texts to become generalised in Victorian Britain.
An eighteenth-century theory which stressed notions such as variety, irregularity, ruggedness, singularity and chiaroscuro in the appreciation of landscape.
was an 18th-centure theory which stressed notions such as variety, irregularity, ruggedness (=(of land) wild and not even),
singularity and chiaroscuro (=pattern of light and dark) in the appreciation of landscape
in this theory, landscape should be viewed as a painting, frames and mediated by the connoisseur (=who knows a lot about and enjoys one of the arts, or food) ruins and beggars were especially favoured by writers
the key theorist: William Gilpin, Payne Knight, Unedale Price.
A Victorian elegiac poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson that bases its lyrical exploration on issues of identity and religious faith.
A classic Victorian novel that opens with a description of London, in which the narrator imagines "a Megalosaurus… waddling like and elephantine lizard up Holborn-hill".
The title of a poem written by Coventry Patmore and which has come to designate and immortalise and archetype of submissive and domestic womanhood.
A famous composition by the Victorian poet Coventry Patmore which projects a patriarchal image of the "perfect" wife; the poem's title designates a female archetype.
doctrine of “separate spheres”; most aptly epitomized by the title of Coventry Patmore’s immensely popular poem; this concept of
womanhood stressed woman’s purity and selflessness; protected within the home, her role was to create a place of peace where man could take refuge from the difficulties of modern life.
The title of an outstanding novel by R. L. Stevenson published in 1886, which revolves about an individual whose personality is divided.
An early novel by Charles Dickens launched in monthly numbers in March 1836. It sold at an astonishing rate of 40,000 a month and it is said to have transformed the literary market.
The pen name of Charlotte Brontë.
The name of Rochester's first wife, who is kept captive in Jane Eyre.
An ethical principle that values an action in terms of its maximum usefulness. The practical effects of this principle are devastting portrayed by Charles dickens in his novel Hard Times.
The novel by Charles Dickens that, because of its great commercial success, caused serialisation of fictional texts to become generalised in Victorian Britain
An early novel by Charles Dickens launched in monthly numbers in March 1836. It sold at an astonishing rate of 40,000 a month and it is said to have transformed the literary market
published in parts; arrival of new literary sensibilities and styles - owes something to the popularity of sporting-life stories
was the brainchild of Robert Seymour, well-known caricaturist, but it was Dickens who was recruited to ‘edit’ the papers "almost unexplained kindness and favour with which these papers have been received by the public ...".
Description of London; urban topography of Dickens's fiction; Dickens evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of the city -like in the opening paragraph of ____________ and closing paragraphs of Little Dorrit; city-isolation of the individual.
Provide intriguing evidence of the influence of emerging scientific knowledge before On the Origin of Species;
A Victorian elegiac poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson that bases its lyrical exploration on issues of identity and religious faith o adapts his understanding of the changing earth to a more personal apprehension of relationship transformed into memory
- reveal a struggle to accept a scientific understanding of the world
- makes deliberate use of punctuation to emphasis emotions, raise questions and express resignation
- kaleidoscopic relationship between faith, belief, knowledge, the unknown, feeling, trust, proof, understanding, truth and wisdom in human experience
- frames his elegy as prayer, asking ultimately for forgiveness and wisdom from God
- express themes of love ('Tis better to have loved and lost, / Than never to have loved at all')
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Pseudonym of Charlotte Brontë.
or Low Church, one of major divisions of the Church of England (High Church + Broad Church)
renewed faith in a Gospel-based Christianity, had its origins in the early to mid-18th century, they believed in the importance of preaching the Word to all, passionately in the scriptures and in the fallen state of humanity and its essentially sinful nature, emphasis on the importance of grace and their personal relationship with God, they were opposed to the transatlantic slave trade
- emphasized spiritual transformation of the individual by conversion and a strictly moral Christian life
- code of morality
- much of its ideas was identical with that of a Nonconformist, or Dissenters
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respond to Bruke's book, by Mary Wollstonecraft
the second: influentially extended the discussion to take in the political rights of women, arguing for the importance of equality of a rational education and opportunity for both sexes.
18-year-old woman was to the throne as Queen of England; 64 years of reign; embody both domestic virtue and imperial power;
married to Prince Albert; held views: against the right of women to vote, supported initiatives for better lives and educational opportunities of the labouring classes
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the first world's fair; __________of the Works of Industry of All Nations; it was organised by Prince Albert and Henry Cole, both members of the Society of Arts, and lasted for five months; icon most associated with it was the spectacular Crystal Palace, an enormous greenhouse-like structure.
a preoccupation with the past undergirds (=support) the Gothic Revival and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and informs a wide range of intellectual movements; perhaps its most intriguing manifestation is the emergence of _______, through which so much that signified 'the Victorian' came to be seen as 'the past'
a mixture of straightforward rebellion against Victorianism, new theorising, and extravagant posing could be the end of the Victorian era is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of______values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.
popular works; packaged their stories of the bizarre, fantastic, and criminal under a sensational engraving on their cover the term designating affordable and usually sensational popular fiction.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s fiction; combines elements of Gothic, detective and science fiction in a complex narrative from that stylistically reinforces the novel’s theme of fragmented, fluctuating identity.
was a recognisable literary figure and social reality long before the term was used; the term first used by Sara Grand in her essay in North American Review
rejecting the assumptions of separate spheres ideology that consigned______ to the home and circumscribed her power to that space these people typically demonstrated their independence from restrictive domestic ideology by flouting conventional feminine behaviour; while_____ embraced a variety of social and political causes, particularly preoccupied with the sexual double standard and with inequality within marriage relationships
the literature of_______ began with Olive Schreiner's The Story of African Farm
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William Makepeace Thackeray's novel; comments on the British empire; its main character is Jos Sedley.
Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans (Marian).
Refers to Bertha Mason from Jane Eyre; term used by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, can be seen to symbolise the woman writer whose creative impulses cannot be openly expressed.
John Ruskin's work in which he expresses moral and aesthetic criticism of art during this period to denounce the evils of Victorian industry and attacks on laissez-faire economics.
educational and employment opportunities for women were limited; these inequities stimulated a spirited debate about women’s roles known as the “______”.
Tennyson’s long poem – its fantasy of women’s college from whose precincts all males are excluded.
Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair.
Victorian novelist whose best-known work (a multi-volume novel with an intrusive narrator and a panoramic cast of characters) was serialized 1847-1848.
The title of the novel praised by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people", whose heroine is Dorothea Brooke.
The name of Rochester's house in Jane Eyre.
The first world's fair; _______of the Works of Industry of All Nations; it was organised by Prince Albert and Henry Cole, both members of the Society of ARts, and lasted for five months; icon most associated with it was the spectacular Crystal Palace, and enormous greenhouse-like structure.
a preocuppation with the past undergrids (=support) the Gothic Revival and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and informs a wide range of intellectual movements; perthaps its most intriguing manifestation is the emergence of____________ , through which so much that signified 'the Victorian' came to be seen as 'the past'
a mixture of straightforward rebellion against Victorianism, new theorising, and extravagant posing could be the end of the Victorian era
is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of ________ values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts
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popular works; packaged their stories of the bizarre, fantastic, and criminal under a sensational engraving on their cover the term designating affordable and usually sensational popular fiction.
was a recognisable literary figure and social reality long before the term was used; the term first used by Sara Grand in her essay in North American Review
rejecting the assumptions of separate spheres ideology that consigned________ to the home and circumscribed her power to that space these people typically demonstrated their independence from restrictive domestic ideology by flouting conventional feminine behaviour; while_________ embraced a variety of social and political causes, particularly preoccupied with the sexual double standard and with inequality within marriage relationships
the literature of__________ began with Olive Schreiner's The Story of African Farm
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Poets of the aesthetic movement were energised by their shared sense of commitment to art and by the new opportunities to circulate their ideas made possible by the parallel rise of a press hospitable to their ideas; they became known as because their work was a staple of the , the leading journal of aestheticism.
Held madness to be "a morbid perversion of the natural feelings, affections, inclinations, temper, habits, moral dispositions, and natural impulses, without any remarkable disorder or defeat of the intellect, or knowing and reasoning faculties, and particularly without any insane allusion or hallucination. (Pritchard).
Poem that expresses her horrified response to an official report on child labour that describes five-year-olds sitting alone in the darkness to open and close ventilation doors, and twelve-year-olds dragging heavy tubs of coal through low-ceilinged mine passages for sixteen hours a day (Elizabeth Barret).
Bunyan's book that was widely read in the 19th century and that, in the moral tradition of religion and didactic works, describes the struggle of human beings between God and evil forces in their search for heavenly peace.
Author of the novel "Adam Bede".
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