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- 1. Victorian Age Novels Made byMadeby Rahila KhanRahila Khan Lecturer EngishLecturer Engish GGDC SibiGGDC Sibi
- 2. The novel • Therewas a communion of interests and opinions between the writers and their readers. • The Victorians were avid consumers of literature. They borrowed books from circulating libraries and read various periodicals. The Victorian Age
- 3. • Novels madetheir first appearance in instalments on the pages of periodicals. • The voice of the omniscient narrator provided a comment on the plot and erected a rigid barrier between «right» and «wrong», light and darkness. The Victorian Age The novel was the best way to convey a picture of life lived in a given society and to question it.
- 4. • The settingchosen by most Victorian novelists was the town. • It was realistic • Victorian writers concentrated on the creation of characters and achieved a deeper analysis of their inner life. The Victorian Age
- 5. Victorian Novel • Novelsof manners • Humanitarian novels • Social problem novel • Nonsense • Adventure novels • Bildungsroman • Exotic Novels • Crime Novel
- 6. Victorian Literature isoften divided into 3 stages: • Early -Victorians • Mid-Victorians 1860- 1880Mid-Victorians 1860- 1880 • Late-Victorians : last 20 years of Victorian Age and Edwardian Age
- 7. Early Victorian writers •The Novelists identify themselves with their age • They felt to have a moral and social responsibility • They analysed their society paying attention not to offend the moral code of the period • Their purpose was didacticdidactic : they saw in the novel a way to correct the vices and weakness of the age.
- 8. Novels’ main characteristics: •Published in instalmentsin instalments they were cheaper and also read by the lower classes • episodic structureepisodic structure • excessive length • obliged to maintain the interestinterest so the reader went on buying the periodicals • too manytoo many details, coincidence and incidents as the writer could modify the story according to the necessity and success • the development of SENSATIONALSENSATIONAL to catch the attention, to create suspense and expectation
- 9. Mid-Victorian • The Brontesisters • George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans ) • Elisabeth Gaskel
- 10. Late-Victorian or Anti-Victorian Reaction •the sense of dissatisfaction and rebelliondissatisfaction and rebellion prevailed • a new sort of realismrealism which rejected any sentimental and romantic attitude; it focused on the clash between man and environment, his dreams and their fulfilment, illusion and reality • the writers were critical and attacked the superficialattacked the superficial optimism and self confidenceoptimism and self confidence of the age , a more pessimistic view
- 11. THE CHARACTERS • TheIndividuals are increasingly portrayed as alienatedalienated from the world in which they live and powerlesspowerless to alter their destiny • The characters’ interior world, their dreams, illusions and despair, becomes more important than the alienating and mechanical external reality
- 12. Anti-Victorian Reaction literary movements •Realism:Realism: reproduction of the reality without idealizing it ( as the Romantics did) • Naturalism:Naturalism: total objectivity and scientific approach to Literature • Aestheticism:Aestheticism: Art for Art’s sake • Decadentism:Decadentism: Art is superior to nature, the finest beauty is that of dying and decaying things
- 13. Realistic Novel • Differentfrom the mild realismmild realism of the first phase. • In France Honore de Balzac, StendhalHonore de Balzac, Stendhal who analysed the human beings in their psychological and moral complexity
- 14. Naturalistic novels • Itstarted from POSITIVISM , in France, with its faith in reason and science • Zolà describes the Urban setting in a scientific way
- 15. Naturalism:Thomas Hardy George EliotMary Anne Evans • Theories of DarwinDarwin • Man conditioned by heredity,environment, circumstances • Deprived of his free will • At the mercy of an indifferent fate • No longer responsible for his actions because these were conditioned by forces beyond his control • To be realistic they focused on the worst aspects of life • The writer had to be objective as a scientist
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