All about Victorian Age literature , their history , poetry and all of the data which students need for their preparation for their examinations and presentations . We hope that you people will like it ...
All about Victorian Age literature , their history , poetry and all of the data which students need for their preparation for their examinations and presentations . We hope that you people will like it ...
Victorian History and Literature(Novels, Poems & Drams )Fida Muhammad
The Victorian” era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 until her death in 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined culture, great advancements in technology, and national self-confidence for Britain.
During theVictorian age, Britain was the worlds most powerful nation. By the end of Victorias reign, the British empire extended over about one-fifth of the earths surface. Like Elizabethan England, Victorian England saw great expansion of wealth, power, and culture. But as Victorian England was a time of great ambition and grandeur, it was also a time of misery, squalor, and urban ugliness.
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Victorian poetry
Victorian poetry refers to British poetic works composed during Queen Victoria’s reign (1837-1901). It should be noted that Irish works are included in the category of British poetry.
3. Victoria's reign seem markedly different from earlier
periods in British history. It is often described by
historians and politicians as the time that the world
changed forever and the age that shaped the globe
more then all the previous centuries the world had ever
seen.
4. Victorian society witnessed a
massive transformation due to the
“progress” in a variety of fields,
Advancements in science, technology,
medicine and engineering coupled with
social and religious progress gave birth
to a new concept of modernity
5. The advancement of the steam engine through
the period brought in a whole new method of
travel, the railways. Train travel revolutionized
the concept of travel and trade and thousands
of miles of tracks were laid across the
empire, for example by 1875 there was an
amazing 9000 miles of track that had been laid!
6. The Industrial Revolution
The extraordinary industrial development brought
huge changes in terms of working and daily life.
One of the main changes that revolution brought
was machines. Business people established
places named factories. There, they had these
machines and they needed some people to work
with them.
7. “The Great Exhibition” in the
Chrystal Palace, London. Erected
to display the exhibits of modern
industry and science. It shows the
new inventions and
congratulations of English empire.
8. The power of the middle class increased with
the expansion of industry and trade
The Reform Bill: it was a response to the
demands of middle classes, who were
taking control of England's economy. It
extended the right to vote to all males
owning property worth £ 10 or more in
annual rent.
9. The developments of the electrical
telegraph, postal services and the
improvement in ship building and
travel gave way to a new concept of
faster communication.
11. Colonialism was an important phenomenon
For better or worse the British Empire had a massive impact on
the history of the world. It was the largest formal empire that
the world had ever known. As such, its power and influence
stretched all over the globe; shaping it in all manner of ways.
13. Negative aspects of the age
Working conditions for women
and children were terrible
Pollution in towns due to factory
activity
Lack of hygienic conditions:
Houses were over
crowded, most people lived in
miserable conditions; poor
housess shared hared water
supplies
Poverty
epidemics
14. The Victorians were great moralisers they
supported: personal duty, hard work, decorum,
respectability, chastity
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17. The leading poets during the Victorian period were:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892),
Robert Browning (1812–89),
Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806–61),
Matthew Arnold (1822–88).
and
Emily Dickinson (American Romantic)
18. the poetry of this period was heavily influenced by
the Romantics, but also went off in its own directions.
Particularly notable was the development of
the dramatic monologue, a form used by many poets in
this period, but perfected by Browning.
Dramatic monologue – the idea of Dramatic
monologue – is creating a lyric poem in the voice of a
speaker ironically distinct from the poet.
19. GENERAL CHARASTERISTICS OF VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Poetry: It was considered superior than prose, novel theatre.
They said that the writing of a genius must be poetry. There
were two main romantic inheritances in poetry:
1.- the use of retrospective forms: archaic language. They
revived many old forms (particularly the mixture of lyric and
elegy which influenced others forms like epigram).
2.- experimentation with genres. Some poets continued the
movement of colloquial diction into poetry (Robert Browning)
* The Victorians loved the heroic, chivalrous stories of knights and
they hoped to regain some of that noble, courtly behavior and
impress it upon the people both at home and in the wider empire.
20. Themes
Notable poets were absorbed in social issues
Tennyson’s poetry: problems of religious faith, social
change and political power.
Browning’s poetry: intellectually and bracing
harshness
Arnold’s poetry: sorrowful, disillusioned pessimism
over the human plight in rapidly changing times
21. Victorian poetry is pictorial; poets use detail to construct visual
images that represent the emotion or situation the poem concerns
“Throughout this era poetry addressed
issues such as patriotism, religious faith,
science, sexuality, and social reform that
often aroused polemical debate. At the
same time, the poets whom we classify as
Victorian frequently devised experiments
that expanded the possibilities of the
genre, creating innovative forms and
types of prosody that enabled new kinds
of poetic voices to emerge in print.”
(Bristow).