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Romanticism and Victorianism Flashcards

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Romanticism:

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1798–1837

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what is taken as the beginning and an end of the romantic period

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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,

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The Romantic period was one of major social change in England- 2 major movements

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Agricultural Revolution- enclosure of land, movement to the cities
Industrial Revolution

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William Blake’s works

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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”

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Who were lake poets?

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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).

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Walter Scott’s poems

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The Lay of the Last Minstrel in 1805,epic poem Marmion in 1808

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Year of Lyrical Ballads

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Lyrical Ballads (1798)

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who wrote”Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

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Coleridge

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Wordsworth work

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“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.

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Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843.

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Robert Southey

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) written by

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Thomas Quincey

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The second generation of Romantic poets includes

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Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
and John Keats

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Percy Shelley’s works

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Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark and Adonaïs, an elegy written on the death of Keats.

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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”)

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George Crabbe

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__________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

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John Clare

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Jane Austin’s novels chronologically

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Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield Park (1814)
Emma (1815)
Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
Persuasion (1818, posthumous)
Lady Susan (1871, posthumous)
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The first historical novel is ___________, written by______________. The novel was followed by ______________.

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Waverly, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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Waverly Novels

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The Antiquary, Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian

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Victorian literature:

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1832–1900

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Charles Dickens

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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

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Who Wrote Vanity Fair in the year 1847

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63)

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Charlotte Bronte-
Anne Bronte-
Emilty Bronte-

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Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre
Anne Bronte- Agnes Grey
Emilty Bronte- Wuthering Heights

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Elizabeth Gaskell wrote

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North and South

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Anthony Trollope’s imaginary country

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Barsetshire

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George Eliot’s real name

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Mary Ann Evans

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_______________is best remembered for his novels The Ordeal of Richard Fevered (1859) and The Egotist (1879).

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George Meredith (1828–1909)

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, who published novels between 1880 and 1903. His best-known novel is.

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George Gissing (1857–1903), 23, New Grub Street (1891)

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When and by whom is Heart of Darkness written

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Heart of Darkness was published in 1899.

written by Joseph Conrad

29
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The first short stories in the United Kingdom were gothic tales like

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Richard Cumberland’s “remarkable narrative” “The Poisoner of Montremos” (1791)

30
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_____________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.

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94), Kidnapped (1886)

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Adventure novels were popular, including Sir John Barrow’s descriptive 1831 account of the

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Mutiny on the Bounty.

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________________ wrote one of the earliest examples, King Solomon’s Mines, in 1885.

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Sir Henry Rider Haggard

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Anthony Hope’s swashbuckling Ruritanian adventure novels_________________

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The Prisoner of Zenda (1894).

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________________ epistolary novel, ______________(1868) is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language,

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Wilkie Collins’, The Moonstone

35
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Doyle wrote __________ and __________short stories featuring Holmes,

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4, 56

36
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Who wrote : The War of the Worlds

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H.G. Wells

37
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The modern fantasy genre is generally said to begin with ______________, the influential author of The Princess and the Goblin and Phantastes (1858)

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George MacDonald

38
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The vampire genre fiction began with _____________ “The Vampyre” (1819). This short story was inspired by the life of -______________ and his poem The Giaour

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John William Polidori’s, Lord Byron

39
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Penny dreadful publication

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Sweeny Todd

40
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Beatrix Potter

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

41
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The leading poets during the Victorian period were

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), Robert Browning (1812–89), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61), and Matthew Arnold (1822–88)

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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?

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Tennyson

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Her most famous work is the sequence of 44 sonnets “Sonnets from the Portuguese” published in Poems (1850). Who?

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

44
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Matthew Arnold’s is best remembered now for his critical works, like ___________ and his 1867 poem ___________.

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Culture and Anarchy (1869), Dover Beach

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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by

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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”.

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a fine poet whose experiments in extending the range of literary language and subject were ahead of his time. Who?

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Arthur Clough

47
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Yellow Book poets who adhered to the tenets of Aestheticism, including ________________

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Algernon Charles Swinburne, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons

48
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Rhymers’ Club was founded by ________________

and included_____________________

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Earnest Rhys and W.B. Yeats

Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson

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_______________ published at his own expense A Shropshire Lad.

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A. E. Housman (1859–1936

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In 1846 ________ published A Book of Nonsense

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Edward Lear

51
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George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) wrote:

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, Arms and the Man (1894)

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Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), wrote:

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The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

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The passing of the ___________ removed the monopoly on drama held by the Patent theatres.

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Theatres Act 1843

54
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WHo published under the title ‘ the round table’

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William Hazlitt

55
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who called 18th centruy age of prose and reason

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Matthew Arnold

56
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In Keat’s Lamia, Lamia was

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serpent woman

57
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Mathew’s culture and anarchy deals with

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ethics

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In dicken’s novel- tale of two cities, 2 cities are

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London and Paris

59
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Wordsworth wrote sonnets on

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Milton

60
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Enclosure Acts when

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1604- 1914

61
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How many poems were there in the lyrical ballads

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23, 4 by C and 19 by W

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