Late Victorian age 1

(1870-1901)
 Historical Background

 George III

 George IV

 William IV

 Queen Victoria
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Divisions
 Early Victorian Age

 Middle Victorian Age

 Late Victorian Age

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Main Events

 Queen as Emperess

 Boers Wars
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Difference from the Early Victorian Age

 Early:
 Industrialization,
 Social reforms,
 Moral responsibility
 Late:
 Victorian Decandance ,
 Gender rules ,
 Advancement in technology
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Characteristics
 1. Victorian realism
 2. Doubts and contradictory faiths
 3. Idealism
 4. Morality
 5. Growth of Victorian age
 6. Age of prose and poetry
 7. Industrial revolution
 8. Scientific discoveries
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Victorian Poetry
 Written during reign of queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901
 Victorian poets.
 Era produced many poets who influenced literature
 Pre-raphaelite movement
 counter cultural movement
 Originated in 1848 by pre raphaelite brotherhood.
 This movement deals with modes of thoughts and feeling.
 Gave greater importance to personal feelings over
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 Poets were full of mysticism and interested in beauty.

 Raphael was a famous painter .this group is influenced by raphael that's why called
pre rephaelites.
 Group of painters ,poets and critics.
 Dante Gabriel
 Chief force.
 Enthusiastic member.
 His drawings were severly criticised.
 Work: the stream secret ,the portrait ,rose marry ,the white ship ,sister helen.
 Life was divided into poetry and art.
 Supreme master of rhythm and music.
 Work in the form of ballads and sonnets
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Whilliam Morris
 Eminent designer and decorator besides being poet.
Work:
 Hisfirst volume of poems is Defence of Gunenevere.
The life and death of Jason is the first series of
narrative poems.
 In 1868 - 1870 published great collection of stories in
'Earthly paradise '
 one of the best poem is sigured the volsung
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Algernon Charles Swineburne

 He is a musician rather than a painter.

 Poetry deals with romantic themes.
 Inspired by French romantics.
Work.
 Atlanta in calydon.
 Bothwell
 marry stuart.
Poems.
 The garden of proserpine.
 Itylus and dolores.
 The triumph of time
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Christiana Rossetti
 English writer of romantic ,devotional poems and children's
poems.
 Best known for his ballads and mystic religioud lyrics.
 Poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feelings.
Works.
 Goblin market.
 The prince progress.
 Time flies.
 The face of the deep
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Background of Astheticism
o Introduction of Asthetic movement.
o Poets of Asthetic movement.
 1.oscar wilde
 Introduction
 Works
 2. Ernest Dowson
 Introduction
 Works
 3.Lionel pigot Johnson
 Introduction
 Works
 4. Arthur symons
 Introduction
 Works.
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Novelists of Late Victorian Age

• George Eliot (1819-1880)

• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
 George Eliot (1819-1880)
Life:
Name:Mary Ann Evons
Born in Workwickshire l,lived there till 1849
Railway disturbed it
Knowledge of the countryside and people
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Works

 Scenes of clerical life(1857)

 Adam Bede(1859)
 The Mill on the Floss
 Silas Marnes(1861)
 Romola(1863)
 Middlemarch(1871-1872)
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Characteristics of novels

 Modern form
 Developed unity of plot construction
 Role as preacher and Moraliser
 Universal moral forces
 Phycological Realism
 Inner struggle of soul
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Thomas Hardy

• Great novelist
• Expressed himself in verse
• Spent his major life portion near Dorchester
• Wrote tragedies
• War in ancientness and modernism
• Celebrated region
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Works
 The Woodlanders
 The Return of the Native
 Far From the Madding
 Crowd
 The mayor of Casterbridge
 Jude of the Obscure
 Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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characteristics

 Quality:
• sincerity and sympathy
 Contribution:
• made novel serious medium which deals fundamental
problem of life
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Prose writing

o The prose of Romantic movement was highly

imaginative and due to social , political,
religious, economical and philosophical change
in the society mainly because of the industrial
revolution in Victorian age,the prose has a
direct shift solitude to society that means realism
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 One experiences of feeling of a return
o From nature to industry
o From solitude to society From concept to issue
o From spiritualism to progmative
o From optimism to agnosticism
o From lyricism to criticism
o From Organism to compromise
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Prose Writers
 1) Thomas babington macaulay
>Introduction >Works

 2)Thomas carlyle
>Introduction >Works

 3) John ruskin
>Introduction >Works

 4) Mathew Arnold
>Introduction >works
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