History of victorian age

presentation on the Victorian age

1. History of Victorian Age (1832-1887) Prepared By Vaishali Jasoliya Nidhi Jasani (Sem-2)

2. Queen Victoria and the Victorian Temper Ruled England from 1837-1901 The Victorian period was an age of transition Exemplifies Victorian qualities: earnestness, moral responsibility, domestic propriety

3. The Reform Bill of 1832 Transformed English class structure Extended the right to vote to all males owning property Second Reform Bill passed in 1867 Extended the right to vote to working class

4. Major Events of the Victorian Era A huge growth in population. Improvements in technology. Changing world views. Poor conditions for the working class.

5. Literary characteristics (1). Prose and novel Prose and Novel is more popular than the other forms in V ictorian Literature. (2). Moral Purpose Moral purpose is more important than esthetic delight in V ictorian literature.

6. (3). Literature of Realism In Victorian Literature we found realism rather than Romance. Real Character (4). Pessimism Pessimism, despair runs through Victorian Literature and is noticed especially in the poetry of Matthew Arnold.

7. (5). Patriotism Patriotism runs through Victorian Literature. Tennyson, Dickens and Disraeli are inspired by a national pride and a sense of greatness in their country’s superiority over other nations.

8. Victorian Compromise Compromise between the Rich and the Poor Compromise between Royalism and Democracy Compromise between Science and Religion Victorianism means an attitude to life and things.

9. Major Poetry Writers of the Victorian Age Alfred Tennyson Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning Matthew Arnold Christina Rossetti D. G. Rossetti William Morris

10. Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) Timbuctoo In Memoriam ( Elegy) Ulysses The Princess The Lady of Shallot and O Enone The Lotos Eaters The Palace of Art Tears, Idle Tears Dora Two Brother

11. Robert Browning (1812-89) Pauline Asolando (1889) My Last Duches The Last Ride Together Holy Cross Day A Grammarian’s Funeral Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845) Sordello The Heretic’s Tragedy The Statue and Bust P ippa P assess

12. Elizabeth Browning (1806-61) The Cry of the Children (1843) Case Guidi Windows (1851) Poem Before Congress (1860) Aurora Leigh Lady Geraldine’s Courtship Sonnets From the Portugese Cowper’s Grave Seraphim (1833) and poems

13. Cristina Rossetti (1830-1894) Goblin Market (1862) The City of Dreadful Night The Prince’s Progress (1866) The Germ (1850) A pageant and other poems (1881) New Poems (1896) Time Flies (1885) Verses (1893) Sing Song (1894) From House to Home

14. Matthew Arnold & William Morris (1822-1888) (1834-1896) The Scholar Gipsy Thyrsis The Stayed Reveller Last Essay on Church and Religion (1877) Essays: in Criticism Literature and Dogma On Translating Homer (1861) The Defernce of Guenevere (1858) The Life and Death of Jason (1867) The March of the Worker The Dream of John Ball All For the Cause Sigurd the Volsung Chant for Socialist (1855)

15. Major Prose Writer of age Thomas Carlyle John Ruskin Thomas Babington Walter Horatio Oscar Wilde

16. Thomas Carlyle & Oscar Wilde (1795-1881) (1854-1900) Sartor Resartus (1833-34) The French Revolution (1838) Heroes and Hero-worship (1841) Past and Present (1843) Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches The Life of Sterling(1851) History of Fredrick the Great (1858-65) The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) De profundis The Picture of Dorian Gray A Woman of No Importance and The Importance of Being Ernest (1899)

17. John Ruskin (1819-1900) Modern Painters (1843-60) Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) The Stones of Venice (1851-53) Unto This Last (1860-62) Munera Pulveris (1862-63) Time and Tide (1867) The Crown of Wild Olive (1866) Sesame and Lilies (1862) Praeterita (1885-89)

18. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) Far From the Madding Crowd(1874) The return of the Native (1878) The Trumpet Major (1880) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) The Woodlanders (1887) Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) Jude the Obscure (1896)

19. Novelist of the age Benjamin Disraeli Charles Dickens W. M. Thackeray Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily, Anne) George Meredith George Eliot Thomas Hardy Elizabeth Bowen

20. Charles Dickens (1812-70) The Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist Bleak House Nicholas Nickleby Sketches by Boz Our Mutual Friend A Tale of Two cities Little Dorritt Old Curiosity Hard Times

21. W.M. Thackeray (1811-63) George M eredith (1828-1909) Punch Vanity fair Pendennis Henry Esmond The Virginians The New Comes The Shaving of Shagpat (1856) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) Evan Harrington (1861) Diana of the Crossways (1815)

22. George Eliot (1819-80) Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) Adam Bede (1859) The Mill on the Floss (1860) Silas Marner : The Weaver of Reveloe (1861) Middle March (1872)

23. Bronte Sisters Charlotte (1816-55) Jane Eyre (1847) Shirley (1849) Villette (1853) The Professor (1857) Emily (1818-48) Wuthering Heights (1847) Anne Agnes Grey (1847) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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