This presentation is based on victorinism and modernism.

1. Victorinism vs
Modernism

2. Personal Details
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● Name:- Payal Bambhaniya
● Paper no.:- 110A
● Paper Name:- History of English Literature - From 1900 to 2000
● Subject Code:- 22403
● Roll no. :- 15
● Topic:- Victorinism vs Modernism
● Submitted to:- SMT S. B. Gardi Department of English, MKBU.
● Batch:- M.A. Sem.2 (2022-2024)

3. Points to Ponder
● Victorinism
● Modernism
● Sociatal Difference and
● Literary Difference and Example of Works
● Conclusion

4. Victorinism
● According to M. H. Abram, Victorinism is frequently
used in a derogatory way to connote narrow-
mindedness. Sexual priggishness. The determination to
maintain feminine ‘innocence'(that is sexual ignorance),
and an emphasis on social respectability.
● Victorian Era (1837-1901) was the period of Queen
Victoria's reign.
● Victorian era was characterized in religion, social
values, and the arts.
● The Age is known as An Age of Prose.
● In this period there was huge progress in science and
arts but with social unrest.
● Two Movements:- Oxford Movement and The Pre-
Raphaelite School of Poetry

5. Modernism
● The horrors of World War I and II.
● 20th century was full of progress and regress which
was because of scientific revolution.
● Movement in Philosophical and arts.
● New form of writing, and Philosophy.
● Writers depart from traditional forms of writing.
● Abstract art, the stream of consciousness novel.
● Surrealism, Expressionism, Absurdism, Dadaism.

6. Societal Difference
● Social classes of this era includes Upper, Middle and lower class. In
the regime of Queen Victoria, always easy to follow and be affected
by what authority and society dictates.
● Women's role in Victorian society to be Modest, Submissive and
depended on men. While in the Modern Era women have more
opportunities for personal and professional growth.
● Modernist society think for themselves and be liberated by the
chains of society.
● Modern society looked at for Victorian society as dull and
hypocritical. Rules and voice of authority was accepted in religion
politics and literature.
● Victorian Era's Society lived under the British Empire while Modern
era's society free to do whatever they want.

7. Literary Difference
● Victorian Authors wrote poems and
Novels that commented on social
Issues on industrialization and class
Devision.
● Religion
● Industrialization
● Class system
● Science
● Utilitarianism
● Women in society
● Progress
Novelist Poets
Charles Dickens Alfred Tennyson
George Eliot Robert Browning
Thomas Hardy Elizabeth Barrett
W. M. Thackeray D. G. Rossetti
Charlotte Bronte William Morris

8. ● Jude the Obscure describes the theme of
marriage, religion and women in society. Jude
marrying Arabella and Sue marries philotson.
Both regret on their decisions and reslize how
their decision affect their entire life. Sue is
unique in victorin society. And Jude's quest to be
accepted into a college at Christminster, a
university town based on Oxford. Jude work for
years, but he is never accepted simply becouse of
his social class and poverty.
● Hard Times criticize the poor living conditions
of the lower class in industrial town.

9. ● The Modern literature describes
the theme of disillusment of 20th
century becouse of the World War I
and II.
● Narrator mostly unrealible.
● Break tradition writing style.
● Political
● Individualism
● Absurdity
● Symbolism
● Formalism
● Loss and despair
● Experimentation
● Meaningless
Samuel Beckett D. H. Lawrence
Joseph Conrad Virginia Woolf
Ernest Hemingway Dorothy
Richardson
F. S. Fitzgerald E. M. Forster
Eugene O’Neill Alfred Doblin
● Modern Writers

10. ● The Waiting for Godot describes the Absurdity,
existence.
● Both the characters Vladimir and Estragon don't
know what to do in their life, they are just
waiting for Godot.
● We find the Individualism in the character Jay
Gatsby in The Great Gatsby.
● The novel for whom the ball Toles describe the
atmosphere of war and loss and despair.
● The Novel The Artist of the Floating World
describes the situation of writer after wrote
about war.

11. Conclusion
● In the Victorian era people lived under the British Empire and
Class division, they believed in religion. And in the Modern era
people are free to do whatever they want. It focuses on individual
expression and experimentation in art and literature.

12. Work Citation
● Abrams, M.H.,and Geoffrey Harpham, A Glossary of Literary
Terms, cengage learning, 2012.
● Ward, A.C. Twentieth-Century English Literature, 1901-1960,
[London] : Methuen, 1964.
● Kuiper, Kathleen. "Modernism". Encyclopedia Britannica, 20
Oct. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/art/Modernism-art.
Accessed 15 March 2023.
● Steinbach, Susie. "Victorian era". Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Jan.
2023, https://www.britannica.com/event/Victorian-era.
Accessed 15 March 2023.

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