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THE VICTORIAN AGE AND CHARLES DICKENS

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THE VICTORIAN AGE

Bonera Federico, Mazzetti Claudia , Renica Alessia, Tabladini filipPO

anti-victorian reaction

victorian compromise

the victorian age : the queen victoria

1837:

The young Victoria ascended to the trone at the age of 18 on the death of her uncle William IV, in 1837. She was in love with Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. She asked him to marry her. Albert died. The life of Queen Victoria is based on: - love - marriage - family - religion

LITERARY BACKGROUND

LATE VICTORIAN NOVELIST

EARLY VICTORIAN NOVELIST

THE AGE OF FICTION

VICTORIAN DRAMA.

VICTORIAN POETRY

THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

PAGE 290-291

CHARLES DICKENS

A LIFE LIKE A NOVEL: -> he was born on 7 February 1812, Portsmouth -> his father was imprisonised for debts -> he worked ten-hour days in a 'blacking' factory -> he became the parliamentary reporter for The Morning Chronicle -> 1833, he married Catherine Hogarth and 1858 he left her for Ellen Ternan -> he produced an immense number of NOVELS

dickens' style and characters

Style: - long list of objects and people; - adjectives used in pairs or in groups of three and four; - several details, not strictly necessary; - repetitions of the same words and sentence structures; - the same concepts are expressed more than once, but with different words; - use of antithetical images and ideas in order to underline the characters’ features; - exaggeration of the characters’ faults; - suspense at the end of the episodes or introduction of a sensational event to keep the readers’ interest. Characters: - caricatures: he exaggerated and ridiculed particular social characteristics of the middle, lower and lowest classes; - weak female characters. He was on the side of the poor, the outcast, the working-class.

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charles dickens' themes

CHILDHOOD, POVERTY AND SOCIAL INJUSTICES

DICKENS' CHILDREN ARE EITHER INNOCENT OR CORRUPTED BY ADULTS

- MOST OF THESE CHILDREN BEGIN IN NEGATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES AND RISE TO HAPPY ENDINGS WHICH RESOLVE THE CONTRADICTIONS IN THEIR LIVES CREATED BY THE ADULT WORLD.

page 296-297

Oliver twist: I WANT SOME MORE

- Oliver Twist was published between 1837 and 1839 - London - Positivism and happy ending: at the end he is saved from a life of villainy by a well-to-do family. Dickens attacked: - the social evils of his times such as poor houses, unjust courts and the underworld; - the world of the workhouses founded upon the idea that poverty was a consequence of laziness; - the officials of the workhouses because they abused the right of the poor as individuals and caused them further misery.

page 305-306-307

HARD TIMES

  • Utilitarianism
  • Criticism of the evils of the Victorian age
  • Difficult situation of young characters growing up in a hostile adult world
  • Hardships of the working class
page 302-303

an urban novelist: bleak house / rosso malpelo

- in Bleak House: description of slum housing, property speculation, overcrowded urban graveyards, neglect of contagious deceases and of the educational needs of children. - In Rosso Malpelo, Rosso is an ill-behaved, fatherless boy. Verga present him through the eyes of the community, who sees the boy as nothing more than a brute unworthy of any consideration.

DAVID COPPERFIELD

- coming-of-age novel-protagonist: David Copperfield, he was orphant - Autobiography (omniscent person) -enemy: David's stepfather and his sister - growing novels: from workhouses to law firm - social criticism: child labour anche eploited childhood -:critics to boaording school system

charles dickens and the victorian age

positivism: happy ending

the victorian middle class

child labour

-He belived in people, maily in child, symbol of purity and rebellion- He hopes in a future of social equality

- social criticism: used humorism to expresse the real problem of work low-class - industry exploitation -urban life -protagonist of Dicken's novels

-Explioted childhood and abused -Boarding school system: (aggresive teachers, in particular for the poorest student)

the most important thing in life is to stop saying " i wish" and start saying "i will" Charles Dickens

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DAVID COPPERFIELD
PICKWICK PAPER

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OLIVER TWIST
A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Tom Sawywer by Mark Twain

-humorism novel-respect social condition and freedom -rebellion -man growth

late victorian novelist

early victorian novelist

lewis carroll

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

charles dickens
oscar wilde
  • realistic narration and social conditions of poor people

"the picture of Dorian Gray"

the bronte sisters
robert louis stevenson

Emily and Charlotte

"The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"

thomas hardy

" Tess of the D'Urbervilles"

matthew arnolds
rudyard kipling

colonial novel

jhon stuart mill
charles darwin

critic prose

scientific writing

Victorian Drama

Born the british drama by Two Irish authors:

  • Oscar Wild: universal themes
  • George Bernard Shaw: social criticism and moral awarness

The scarlett letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

-american's piuritan past: sin, guilt and power of love-individual conscence

The portrait of a Lady by Henry James

- Encounter from Europe and america - Important for human psychology

VICTORIAN POETRY

  • 2 main drama monalogue authors:
-alfred tennyson: ulisses -Robert browning: inspired by italian renaissence poems and talk about complexity of human mind
  • pre-raphaelite brotherhood: aesthetic movement in last years of Victorian age ( mysticism, sensuality and nostalgia)
  • WALT WITHMAN: individual society, democracy of usa, love and sex
  • EmILY DICKINSON: universal value of nature in life, like the role of destiny

Moby dick by Herman Melvill

- variety styles and languages - moral values - philosophical allegory of life and death - dicotomy of whale