introduction to victorian era
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Birth: May 24, 1819Death: January 22, 1901Reign: 1837-1901(18-82years old)
“Grandmother of Europe”“Empress of India”
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Themes/Focus Genre
Thomas Carlyle
The bad-worse effect of industrialization
Essay
John Stuart Mill
Analytic approach to the economic and political problems
Essay
John RuskinImportance of independent thinking human values
Essay
William Morris
Importance of independent thinking and human values
Essay
Matthew Arnold
Unimaginative materialism of Victorians
Essay
Author’s Name Themes/Focus Genre
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Melancholy and Romantic Poetry
Robert and Elizabeth Browning
Italian Renaissance Poetry
Dante Gabriel RosettiPure & simple images characteristics of Medieval Italian art
Poetry
Christina Rosetti Religious mysticism Poetry
Thomas HardyPessimism, sense of tragedy, disappointment
Poetry
A.E Housman Fatalism Poetry
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry
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Themes/Focus Genre
W.S Gilbert
Ridiculous, Hypocrisy, Vitality Drama
Oscar Wilde
English society as devoid of emotional, moral and physical reality
Drama
George Bernard
Shaw
Origins of Social Problems and Represented the anti-Victorian tradition
Drama
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Themes/FocusGenr
eMaster Piece
Charles DickensEntertaining and critical of sham and hypocrisy in Victorian society
Novel-Oliver Twist-Great Expectations
William Makepeace Thackeray
Human conflict Novel-Vanity Fair-The History of Henry Esmond
Samuel Butler Social Criticism Novel-The Way Of All Flesh
Emily Bronte Human emotions Novel-WutheringHeights
Charlotte Bronte Human passion Novel -Jane Eyre
Mary Ann Evans Intellectual ideas Novel -Middle March
Author’s Name
Themes/Focus Genre Master Piece
GeorgeMeredith
Comic romances; Men weakness and female strength
Novel-The Adventures of Harry Richmond
Thomas Hardy Realistic tales; History Novel
-The Return of the Native-Test of the D’Urbervilles-Jude the Obscure
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robust adventure tales Novel Storyteller
Rudyard Kipling
Life of India Novel Storyteller
Joseph ConradEngland’s attempt to justify its supremacy as an imperial power
Novel Storyteller
Charles DodsonParody, irony and symbolic suggestion
Novel
-Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland-Through the looking glass
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