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Late Victorian Age

The document discusses the Late Victorian age from 1870-1901 in the United Kingdom. It covers historical context, divisions of the Victorian era, key events like the Boer Wars, differences from the Early Victorian period, characteristics of the Late Victorian age including advances in technology and changes to gender norms. It also summarizes Victorian poetry, notable poets, novelists like George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, prose writing, and prominent prose writers of the period.

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Late Victorian Age

The document discusses the Late Victorian age from 1870-1901 in the United Kingdom. It covers historical context, divisions of the Victorian era, key events like the Boer Wars, differences from the Early Victorian period, characteristics of the Late Victorian age including advances in technology and changes to gender norms. It also summarizes Victorian poetry, notable poets, novelists like George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, prose writing, and prominent prose writers of the period.

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Late Victorian age 1

(1870-1901)
 Historical Background

 George III

 George IV

 William IV

 Queen Victoria
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Divisions
 Early Victorian Age

 Middle Victorian Age

 Late Victorian Age


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Main Events

 Queen as Emperess

 Boers Wars
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Difference from the Early Victorian Age

 Early:
 Industrialization,
 Social reforms,
 Moral responsibility
 Late:
 Victorian Decandance ,
 Gender rules ,
 Advancement in technology
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Characteristics
 1. Victorian realism
 2. Doubts and contradictory faiths
 3. Idealism
 4. Morality
 5. Growth of Victorian age
 6. Age of prose and poetry
 7. Industrial revolution
 8. Scientific discoveries
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Victorian Poetry
 Written during reign of queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901
 Victorian poets.
 Era produced many poets who influenced literature
 Pre-raphaelite movement
 counter cultural movement
 Originated in 1848 by pre raphaelite brotherhood.
 This movement deals with modes of thoughts and feeling.
 Gave greater importance to personal feelings over
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CONTINUE….

 Poets were full of mysticism and interested in beauty.


 Raphael was a famous painter .this group is influenced by raphael that's why called
pre rephaelites.
 Group of painters ,poets and critics.
 Dante Gabriel
 Chief force.
 Enthusiastic member.
 His drawings were severly criticised.
 Work: the stream secret ,the portrait ,rose marry ,the white ship ,sister helen.
 Life was divided into poetry and art.
 Supreme master of rhythm and music.
 Work in the form of ballads and sonnets
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Whilliam Morris
 Eminent designer and decorator besides being poet.
Work:
 Hisfirst volume of poems is Defence of Gunenevere.
The life and death of Jason is the first series of
narrative poems.
 In 1868 - 1870 published great collection of stories in
'Earthly paradise '
 one of the best poem is sigured the volsung
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Algernon Charles Swineburne

 He is a musician rather than a painter.


 Poetry deals with romantic themes.
 Inspired by French romantics.
Work.
 Atlanta in calydon.
 Bothwell
 marry stuart.
Poems.
 The garden of proserpine.
 Itylus and dolores.
 The triumph of time
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Christiana Rossetti
 English writer of romantic ,devotional poems and children's
poems.
 Best known for his ballads and mystic religioud lyrics.
 Poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feelings.
Works.
 Goblin market.
 The prince progress.
 Time flies.
 The face of the deep
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Background of Astheticism
o Introduction of Asthetic movement.
o Poets of Asthetic movement.
 [Link] wilde
 Introduction
 Works
 2. Ernest Dowson
 Introduction
 Works
 [Link] pigot Johnson
 Introduction
 Works
 4. Arthur symons
 Introduction
 Works.
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Novelists of Late Victorian Age

• George Eliot (1819-1880)


• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
 George Eliot (1819-1880)
Life:
Name:Mary Ann Evons
Born in Workwickshire l,lived there till 1849
Railway disturbed it
Knowledge of the countryside and people
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Works

 Scenes of clerical life(1857)


 Adam Bede(1859)
 The Mill on the Floss
 Silas Marnes(1861)
 Romola(1863)
 Middlemarch(1871-1872)
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Characteristics of novels

 Modern form
 Developed unity of plot construction
 Role as preacher and Moraliser
 Universal moral forces
 Phycological Realism
 Inner struggle of soul
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Thomas Hardy

• Great novelist
• Expressed himself in verse
• Spent his major life portion near Dorchester
• Wrote tragedies
• War in ancientness and modernism
• Celebrated region
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Works
 The Woodlanders
 The Return of the Native
 Far From the Madding
 Crowd
 The mayor of Casterbridge
 Jude of the Obscure
 Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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characteristics

 Quality:
• sincerity and sympathy
 Contribution:
• made novel serious medium which deals fundamental
problem of life
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Prose writing

o The prose of Romantic movement was highly


imaginative and due to social , political,
religious, economical and philosophical change
in the society mainly because of the industrial
revolution in Victorian age,the prose has a
direct shift solitude to society that means realism
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.......
 One experiences of feeling of a return
o From nature to industry
o From solitude to society From concept to issue
o From spiritualism to progmative
o From optimism to agnosticism
o From lyricism to criticism
o From Organism to compromise
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Prose Writers
 1) Thomas babington macaulay
>Introduction >Works

 2)Thomas carlyle
>Introduction >Works

 3) John ruskin
>Introduction >Works

 4) Mathew Arnold
>Introduction >works
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