Victorian Literature Context Flashcards

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Rossetti’s father:

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Italian political exile

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Rossetti’s brother:

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Dante was a painter in the pre-Raphaelite movement, and she even sat for a painting of the Virgin Mary

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Rossetti’s sister:

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Nun for ‘Society of all-saints,’ they both volunteered at an institution for ‘fallen women’

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Rossetti’s religion:

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Converted from Anglicanism to the Oxford movement, becoming Tractarian. The Oxford movement believed that there should be a separation of government and religion. Her religious mania developed, and had an affect on her personal relationships as well as her world view

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Early Victorian Society:

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  • very orthodox, still strict to tradition and religion
  • Darwinism began to surface, but was largely ignored
  • Opening of rail roads for travel and economic opportunities; trade with China for tea, India for cotton and Australia for beef
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Romanticism:

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An artistic movement that focused on nature, imagination and emotion

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Pre-Raphaelite movement:

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Underground artistic movement that opposed the teaching of Raphael

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James Collinson:

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Ex-lover of Rossetti that left due to being Roman Catholic; he was a Pre-Raphalite

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Wilde politics:

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Feminist, aesthete, socialist, Irish national

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Wilde socialism:

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‘Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things.’ - Wilde

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Wilde’s other editorials:

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The Woman’s World and Punch

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The Woman’s World:

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Wilde edited this magazine, and allowed topics to shift from the domestic, typically feminine discussions of fashion, household management and the private sphere to education, literature, politics, etc..

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Wilde ‘The Woman’s World’ quotes:

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‘Deal not merely with what women wear, but with what they think, and what they feel’
‘First social magazine for women’

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Punch magazine:

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Magazine that focused on satirical humour based on British Victorian Society

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Wilde’s other inspirations:

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Keynotes by George Egerton (Mary Dunne), Hannson states ‘it is a liberal book, indiscreet in respect of the intimacies of married life, and entirely without respect for the husband.’

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Late Victorian Society:

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  • Dandyism
  • Working and living standards improved
  • New Woman Stereotype
  • Homosexuality deemed immoral
  • Decrease in religion due to acceptance of Darwinism