Unseen Flashcards
Victorian Literature
- offers a social commentary regarding social class and hierarchy etc.
- has a very moralistic and didactic approach
- has detailed and intricate plots with a large range of characters
- focuses on the physiognomy rather than the psychological (external focus rather than internal)
- industrial revolution - victorian bleakness - large influx of people in the cities (batteries) as people moved from rural decay into urban ghettoization
- Angel of the House - Coventry Patmore 1854
- The New Woman - Sarah Grand in 1884
The Aesthetic Movement
- took place alongside Victorian Literature
- artistic climate of sophistication, escapism and fashionable desires
- ‘Art for art’s sake’
- exotic influences from Japan and China for example
- Included Oscar Wilde and Rossetti for example
- rejected Victorian ideas of moralism and didacticism
- focusing on the beauty (still an external focus) visual beauty
Edwardian Literature
- celebration of nationalism and imperialism
- before WWI therefore was a time of peace and economic growth
- trade unions were created to support the working class
- evolution of more socialist sentiments
Years for Victorian lit.
1837 - 1901
Years for Aesthetic lit.
1860 - 1900
Modernist Literature
- WWI - industrial and technological war
- traditional ideas were shattered
- human corruption and alienation
- psychoanalytical focus - complexity of multifaceted human identity and nature
- William James championed the ‘stream of consciousness’
- capturing fleeting moments
What was the symbolism behind the Green carnation
- symbolised sexual deviency (Oscar Wilde)
When was the Labouchere Amendment
1885
- criminalised homosexuality (Oscar Wilde was jailed)
The Angel of the House
Coventry Patmore
1854
Women were expected to remain meek, subservient and virtuous
The New Woman
Sarah Grand
1884
Female intellectual curiosity and passion for knowledge
‘On the Origin of the Species’ - Charles Darwin
1857
Proposed the idea of Evolution
People feared Atavism (decay of mankind and moving backwords)
Atavism
People feared Atavism (decay of mankind and moving backwords)
Heterodiegetic narrator
from the 3rd person
Autodiegetic narrator
from the 1st person
journal/diary form
intimate and personal perspective
but also makes it unreliable
privacy and secrecy
adds a layer of authenticity
essay form
blending the personal and universal
reflective and ethical dimensions
could be a direct social commentary
it is usually objective but sometimes contains intense descriptions
how is gunni going to start her paragraphs
by leading with the supporting extracts! :) This will be my AO5
What is gunni going to remember when analysing the extract?
FICCTS
Free-indirect discourse
Irony
Characterisation
Conflict
Tone (narrative voice)
Setting
*shifts in focus or anything
*form/type of extract
Gilded Age
From around 1870s - 1900s
Excessive wealth versus extreme/intense poverty
Idea of the performance of roles
American Realism
From around 1860s -1900s
Huge focus on the psychological rather than the physiognomical
Representing America for what it is - critiquing societal constructions etc.
Marxist lens
Looking at class - alienation, segregation etc.
Feminist lens
societal conventions such as marriage and starting a family
reducing the value and worth of women etc.
Psychoanalytical lens
Focusing on the psychological rather than the physiognomical
Conventional to the Modernist period 1915 -1930
Stream of consciousness
Common to American Realism
Championed by William James
Gothic Literature
- supernatural elements
- heightened emotions
- isolation/claustrophobia
Eugenics
‘cleaning’ or filtering the gene pool to gain a ‘better’ quality population
