Unseen

Question 1

Victorian Literature

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

The Aesthetic Movement

Answer 2

• 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

Question 3

Edwardian Literature

Answer 3

• 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

Question 4

Years for Victorian lit.

Answer 4

1837 - 1901

Question 5

Years for Aesthetic lit.

Answer 5

1860 - 1900

Question 6

Modernist Literature

Answer 6

• 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

Question 7

What was the symbolism behind the Green carnation

Answer 7

• symbolised sexual deviency (Oscar Wilde)

Question 8

When was the Labouchere Amendment

Answer 8

1885

• criminalised homosexuality (Oscar Wilde was jailed)

Question 9

The Angel of the House

Answer 9

Coventry Patmore

1854

Women were expected to remain meek, subservient and virtuous

Question 10

The New Woman

Answer 10

Sarah Grand

1884

Female intellectual curiosity and passion for knowledge

Question 11

‘On the Origin of the Species’ - Charles Darwin

Answer 11

1857

Proposed the idea of Evolution

People feared Atavism (decay of mankind and moving backwords)

Question 12

Atavism

Answer 12

People feared Atavism (decay of mankind and moving backwords)

Question 13

Heterodiegetic narrator

Answer 13

from the 3rd person

Question 14

Autodiegetic narrator

Answer 14

from the 1st person

Question 15

journal/diary form

Answer 15

intimate and personal perspective

but also makes it unreliable

privacy and secrecy

adds a layer of authenticity

Question 16

essay form

Answer 16

blending the personal and universal

reflective and ethical dimensions

could be a direct social commentary

it is usually objective but sometimes contains intense descriptions

Question 17

how is gunni going to start her paragraphs

Answer 17

by leading with the supporting extracts! :) This will be my AO5

Question 18

What is gunni going to remember when analysing the extract?

Answer 18

FICCTS

Free-indirect discourse
Irony
Characterisation
Conflict
Tone (narrative voice)
Setting

*shifts in focus or anything
*form/type of extract

Question 19

Gilded Age

Answer 19

From around 1870s - 1900s

Excessive wealth versus extreme/intense poverty

Idea of the performance of roles

Question 20

American Realism

Answer 20

From around 1860s -1900s

Huge focus on the psychological rather than the physiognomical

Representing America for what it is - critiquing societal constructions etc.

Question 21

Marxist lens

Answer 21

Looking at class - alienation, segregation etc.

Question 22

Feminist lens

Answer 22

societal conventions such as marriage and starting a family

reducing the value and worth of women etc.

Question 23

Psychoanalytical lens

Answer 23

Focusing on the psychological rather than the physiognomical

Conventional to the Modernist period 1915 -1930

Question 24

Stream of consciousness

Answer 24

Common to American Realism

Championed by William James

Question 25

Gothic Literature

Answer 25

• supernatural elements
• heightened emotions
• isolation/claustrophobia

Question 26

Eugenics

Answer 26

‘cleaning’ or filtering the gene pool to gain a ‘better’ quality population