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The Victorian Period (1832-1900) Flashcards

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What were people in this period trying to live up to?

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A national spirit of earnestness, respectability, modesty and domesticity.

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What was the predominant preoccupation in literary works?

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Common sense and moral propriety

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What caused the expansion of newspapers and periodicals?

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Debates about current political and social issues

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What did Victorian literature (especially novels) offer?

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A realistic, day-to-day portrayal of social life

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What is analyzed in the Victorian novels?

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the society’s effects on the individual

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What is the great achievement of Victorian poetry?

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Dramatic monologue - the idea of creating a lyric poem in the vice of a speaker distinct form the poet’s

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What did portagonists usually seek in Victorian novels?

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fulfilment (of self & station in life)

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What was the main setting in Victiorian novels?

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19th centure England

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What were key issues in Victorian novels?

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society, manners, morals and money

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What was more important in Victorian novels?

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Character is more important than action and plot.

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What is often the subject in Victorian novels?

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Complex ethical choices

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Are events usually plausible in Victorian novels?

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yes

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What did realistic novel avoid?

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the sensational, dramatic elements of naturalistic novels and romances.

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What tones were used in Victorian novels?

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comic, satiric, or matter-of-fact

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What has the Victorian novel traditionally served?

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the interests and aspirations of an insurgent middle class.

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What are the generally looked upon greatest poets of the Victorian era?

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Tennyson and Browning

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Birth and death Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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1809-1892

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What was Tennyson at heart?

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A romantic

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What was Tennyson interested in and affected by?

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the social questions of his time and the development of science

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What did Tennyson’s poetry show?

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all the emotionalism, the love of nature and of man, the admiration of medieval chivalry of his great forerunners

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What did Tennyson show?

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a touch of the rationalistic views in his striving after perfection of form

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Poetry published by Tennyson in 1830

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The Lady of Shalott

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Poetry published by Tennyson in 1832

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The Lotos Eaters

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What did the poetry “The Lady of Shalott” show about Tennyson?

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his interest in Arthurian legend

25
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What did the poetry “The Lotos Eaters” picture?

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the romantic, dreamy atomphere of the East

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Poetry published by Tennyson in 1842

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Morte d’Arthur

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Poetry published by Tennyson in 1850

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Memoriam

28
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How did “Memoriam” begin?

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In memory of a dear college-friend of Tennyson

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What was the subject of “Memoriam”?

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dealing with man’s problems of life and death

30
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What stories had always attracted Tennyson?

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The stories of King Arthur and his knights

31
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What showed the twelve “Idylls of the King” about Tennyson?

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his mastery of language, great melodiousness and a romantic love of the past

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Birth and death Robert Browning

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1812-1889

33
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What was Browning’s style like, in comparison to to Tennyson?

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more conversational, more vehement (passionete), more experimental, more varied, and also more difficult than Tennyson’.

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What mondern poets has Browning influenced?

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Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot

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What did Browning always prefer, unlike the Romantics?

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men and women to Nature, the ciry to the country

36
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Who did Browning marry?

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successful poetess Elizabeth Barrett

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When did Browning marry?

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In 1846

38
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Where did Browning settle and why?

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In Italy, because he loved Italian music, art and history

39
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What is Browning the poet of?

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ambiguous situations

40
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What did Browning’s genius find?

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the most perfect expression in the dramatic monologue, in which a single person tells the story in such a way as to reveal his inmost soul.

41
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What is “My Last Duchess” about?

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a proud and cynical Italian Duke that is showing his picture gallery to the messenger of a Count whose daughter he is going to marry

42
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Birth and death Charles Dickens

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1812-1870

43
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How did Dickens chilhood come to a sudden and frustating end?

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His father was put in prison for debt and he was sent to work in a boot-blacking factory

44
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How was Charles able to return to school

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His father came home because of an unexpected inheritance

45
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The central characters of what novels reflect the despair of thee ecperience of working as a child in the boot-blacking factory?

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Oliver Twist
Little Dorrit
Great Expectations

46
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What was Dickens when he began to write

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a parliamentary reporter (writing a series of sketches of London life)

47
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Where was Dickens popular, besides England?

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America

48
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What was everything that Dickens was?

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a man of theatre, a supporter of social reforms, a radical journalist, a great public reader of his work, the head of a large family and he had a large circle of friends, including ladies he would not want his wife to know about.

49
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What formed the inspiration for much of Charles’ writing?

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The circumstances of his youth

50
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What creates a subtle contrast that Dickens exploits in his characterization, often with a fine sense of humour?

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The thin line that separates the struggling middle classes from the poverty-stricken lower classes.

51
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What does Dickens reveal about London?

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the unknwn dramas and styles of life in the streets and alleys, the prisons and other oppressive insitutions

52
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What is London to Dickens’s characters?

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a threatening background to their lives

53
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Who does Dickens clearly blame for the misery?

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the responsible authorities

54
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Dickens is the first English novelist to do what?

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expose the scandalously time-consuming processes of modern bureaucracy

55
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At what age and how did Charles Dickens die?

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at age 58, after a storke brought on by hard work

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