Engels Literature Klas 5 Victorian Age Flashcards
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Victorian Age
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1837-1900
- Impressive economic and military strength
- industrial revelotion had made Britain the first industrialized country: railway, steam engine. It also came with tremendous social and political change
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Industrial revolution
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- left coutry for the city
- industry became more important than agriculture
- capitalistic system: little owners possessing the factories, land and machines) many people were poor.
- social inequality, bad working and living conditions and child labour.
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During the reign of queen victoria (1837-1901) life gradually improved
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- trade unions
- laws which protected the interests of the working-class (forbidding child labour, free elementary education, right to vote)
- new inventions made it relatively easier to work in the factories
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Charles darwin
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- the origin of species (1859)
- turning point -> ape angel discussion
- feelings of doubt and pessimism
- invited to the Royal society
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Fin de siècle
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- feeling that life was about to stop
- l’art pour l’art
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L’art pour l’art
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- make art because it’s beautiful, dont expect anything else
- intrinsic instead of didactic, moral, utilitarian
- oscar wilde
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There is a return to the ideas and ideals of the neo classical period
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-less emotions, more realism
-less imagination, more realism
-less individual freedom, more discipline
The romantic ideas become weaker
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Hedonistic view
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Joy has the priority, you live for yourself
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Literature themes
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-realism
-more discipline
-social criticism
Age of prose, especially the novel, form is very suitable for social critisism
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Instalments
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Short stories in the paper (pickwick paper)
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Charles Dickens
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- familiar with poor life conditions of the majority of the people
- ambitious and industrious
- books often deal with the misery of the poor
- characters: rather flat, extremely good or extremely bad. Quite grotesque which makes them funny. Goodies always win
- master of irony
- social critic, moralistic, message is important : TRUE VICTORIAN
- the pickwick papers, oliver twist, david copperfield, hard times, a christmas carol
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The Brönte sisters
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- unhappy youth in bitter poverty: mother had died and father was introvert. Their only brother drugs and alcohol.
- isolated on the Yorkshire moors
- to make their life bearable they fled into the world of fantasies
- couldnt play with other kids because they were of higher class
- enormous imagination
- themes: passionate love, position of women
- romantic writers but not sentimental
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Works of the Brönte sisters
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- Charlotte; Jane Eyre
- emily: Wuthering heights
- Anne: the tenant of the wildfell hall
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George Eliot (Mary-Ann Evans)
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- used the name of a man to get books published
- intellectual
- analysis of the characters of her heroes and heroines
- moralistic
- realistic and good view of what life was like in the victorian age and how it developed
- Silas marner, the Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda
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Thomas Hardy
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- life is determined by faith
- pessimistic
- fate instead of god
- works are also pessimistic, characters mostly unhappy and come to a bad end
- tess of the d’Ubbervilles, Jude the Obscure, Far from the madding crowd
