Romanticism and Victorianism Flashcards
Romanticism:
1798–1837
what is taken as the beginning and an end of the romantic period
but here the publishing of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 is taken as the beginning, and the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 as its end,
The Romantic period was one of major social change in England- 2 major movements
Agricultural Revolution- enclosure of land, movement to the cities
Industrial Revolution
William Blake’s works
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience “and profound and difficult ‘prophecies’ “ such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion , The First Book of Urizen, and “Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant Albion”
Who were lake poets?
Lake Poets, a small group of friends, including William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), Robert Southey (1774–1843) and journalist Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859).
Walter Scott’s poems
The Lay of the Last Minstrel in 1805,epic poem Marmion in 1808
Year of Lyrical Ballads
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
who wrote”Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Coleridge
Wordsworth work
“Michael”, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”, “Resolution and Independence”, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” and the long, autobiographical, epic The Prelude.
Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843.
Robert Southey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) written by
Thomas Quincey
The second generation of Romantic poets includes
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
and John Keats
Percy Shelley’s works
Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark and Adonaïs, an elegy written on the death of Keats.
The Village (1783), Poems (1807), The Borough (1810) written by? ( an English poet who, during the Romantic period, wrote “closely observed, realistic portraits of rural life […] in the heroic couplets of the Augustan age”)
George Crabbe
__________was the son of a farm laborer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation for the changes taking place in rural England
John Clare
Jane Austin’s novels chronologically
Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1815) Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous) Persuasion (1818, posthumous) Lady Susan (1871, posthumous)
The first historical novel is ___________, written by______________. The novel was followed by ______________.
Waverly, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Waverly Novels
The Antiquary, Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian
Victorian literature:
1832–1900
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers – 1836
The Pickwick Papers, also known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, was the first novel of Charles Dickens. 1837.
Oliver Twist – 1837
or, The Parish Boy’s Progress.
Nicholas Nickleby – 1838
The Old Curiosity Shop – 1840
Barnaby Rudge – 1841
The historical novel is set during the Gordon Riots of 1780.
Dombey and Son – 1846
David Copperfield – 1849
David Copperfield, Dickens’s eighth novel,
Bleak House – 1852
Hard Times – 1854
The novel first appeared in Dickens’s Weekly periodical, Household Words.
Little Dorrit – 1855
A Tale of Two Cities – 1859
A play, The Frozen Deep, was the inspiration for A Tale of Two Cities. Not only did the play give Dickens the idea for A Tale of Two Cities, it brought about lasting changes to Dickens’s life in the form of Ellen Ternan.
Great Expectations – 1860
Our Mutual Friend – 1864
Our Mutual Friend is the last novel that Charles Dickens completed before his death.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood – 1870
Who Wrote Vanity Fair in the year 1847
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63)
Charlotte Bronte-
Anne Bronte-
Emilty Bronte-
Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre
Anne Bronte- Agnes Grey
Emilty Bronte- Wuthering Heights
Elizabeth Gaskell wrote
North and South
Anthony Trollope’s imaginary country
Barsetshire
George Eliot’s real name
Mary Ann Evans
_______________is best remembered for his novels The Ordeal of Richard Fevered (1859) and The Egotist (1879).
George Meredith (1828–1909)
, who published novels between 1880 and 1903. His best-known novel is.
George Gissing (1857–1903), 23, New Grub Street (1891)
When and by whom is Heart of Darkness written
Heart of Darkness was published in 1899.
written by Joseph Conrad
The first short stories in the United Kingdom were gothic tales like
Richard Cumberland’s “remarkable narrative” “The Poisoner of Montremos” (1791)
_____________also wrote works in this genre, including _____________ , a historical novel set in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, and Treasure Island (1883), the classic pirate adventure.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94), Kidnapped (1886)
Adventure novels were popular, including Sir John Barrow’s descriptive 1831 account of the
Mutiny on the Bounty.
________________ wrote one of the earliest examples, King Solomon’s Mines, in 1885.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Anthony Hope’s swashbuckling Ruritanian adventure novels_________________
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894).
________________ epistolary novel, ______________(1868) is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language,
Wilkie Collins’, The Moonstone
Doyle wrote __________ and __________short stories featuring Holmes,
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Who wrote : The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
The modern fantasy genre is generally said to begin with ______________, the influential author of The Princess and the Goblin and Phantastes (1858)
George MacDonald
The vampire genre fiction began with _____________ “The Vampyre” (1819). This short story was inspired by the life of -______________ and his poem The Giaour
John William Polidori’s, Lord Byron
Penny dreadful publication
Sweeny Todd
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The leading poets during the Victorian period were
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), Robert Browning (1812–89), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61), and Matthew Arnold (1822–88)
He was described by T. S. Eliot, as “the greatest master of metrics as well as melancholia”, and as having “the finest ear of any English poet since Milton”. who is this person?
Tennyson
Her most famous work is the sequence of 44 sonnets “Sonnets from the Portuguese” published in Poems (1850). Who?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Matthew Arnold’s is best remembered now for his critical works, like ___________ and his 1867 poem ___________.
Culture and Anarchy (1869), Dover Beach
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by
William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form the seven-member “brotherhood”.
a fine poet whose experiments in extending the range of literary language and subject were ahead of his time. Who?
Arthur Clough
Yellow Book poets who adhered to the tenets of Aestheticism, including ________________
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons
Rhymers’ Club was founded by ________________
and included_____________________
Earnest Rhys and W.B. Yeats
Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson
_______________ published at his own expense A Shropshire Lad.
A. E. Housman (1859–1936
In 1846 ________ published A Book of Nonsense
Edward Lear
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) wrote:
, Arms and the Man (1894)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), wrote:
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
The passing of the ___________ removed the monopoly on drama held by the Patent theatres.
Theatres Act 1843
WHo published under the title ‘ the round table’
William Hazlitt
who called 18th centruy age of prose and reason
Matthew Arnold
In Keat’s Lamia, Lamia was
serpent woman
Mathew’s culture and anarchy deals with
ethics
In dicken’s novel- tale of two cities, 2 cities are
London and Paris
Wordsworth wrote sonnets on
Milton
Enclosure Acts when
1604- 1914
How many poems were there in the lyrical ballads
23, 4 by C and 19 by W
