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Victorian rhetoric
-separate spheres for men and women
-men are public and political
-women private domestic
Masculinity
Strength and stoicism
Femininely
“The angel of the house” vs “the fallen women”
Charlotte Brontë
-born and raised in Yorkshire
-returned to England and began writing Jane eyre
Jane eyres journey
Gateshead -lowood-thornfield- marsh end-ferndean
The British Victorian period
-great reform act
-reign of queen victoria
-much debate about gender politics
-advent of REALISM as a literacy mode
Realism
-faithful representation of everyday life
-revolt again pictorial conventions
-emphasis on portraying things as they are
Gothic novel
Adapts elements from folklore and fairytale
-plays with the boundaries of unspeakable fears and desires
Byronic Hero
A character type named after the romantic poet George
-a handsome, melancholic usually aristocrat man
- a man with a dark past and hidden secrets
- a figure of sexual intrigue and complexity
Phrenology
The idea that the contours of the head and face reveal intellectual aptitudes and character traits
Physiognomy
The study of the u rental character from external appearances
Mary Seacole
-set up the British hotel during the Crimean war and nursed British soldiers
-wrote wonderful adventures of Mary seacole
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
-reason
-emotions
-credibility
The Crimean war 1853-56
-Russian empire vs alliance of Ottoman Empire, Britain, France, and Sardinia
-disease accounted for a disproportionate number of deaths on each side
- a media sensation
Autobiography
Tells us a story of the authors developing self
-creates a pact between author and reader
-author overcomes challenges
-reader synthesizes with author
Travel writing
- a popular and successful genre in the Victorian period
-seacole uses this for to subtly challenge the imperial glaze
The dramatic monologue
-features a single speaker, who is not identifiable with the post but rather an invented persona
This persona delivers a lengthy speech at a crucial dramatic moment-like in Shakespeare plays
Ex of dramatic monologue
Alfred Tennyson “Ulysses’s”
Victorian neoflassicism
-fascination worth Ancient Greece
Classical Greece= a golden age
-literature that seems to be about Ancient Greece may really be invested in distinctly Victorian concern
Ex 2 dramatic monologues Robert brownings
-“porphyria’s lover”
-master of dramatic monologue