1 / 9

THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

THE VICTORIAN NOVEL. THE DOMINANT AND WIDELY-READ LITERARY FORM OF THE 19° CENTURY Elisa Vinicio 5^B . Years of development. The Victorian Age is marked by the reign of Queen Victoria , which covered the nineteenth century.

quang
Download Presentation

THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. THE VICTORIAN NOVEL THE DOMINANT AND WIDELY-READ LITERARY FORM OF THE 19° CENTURY Elisa Vinicio 5^B

  2. Years of development The Victorian Age is marked by the reign of Queen Victoria , which covered the nineteenth century. Important social changes happened during the Victorian Age: • Industrial Revolution • Growth of towns • Revolution in the class system

  3. Themes The Victorian novel treats about social changes which happened at the time like: • Clash between the middle class and the working class; • People’s desire to rise up and the fear of falling down the social ladder; • Exploitation of children; • Inadequacy in the social services; • Education system.

  4. Elements which arouse the readers’ attention The reading public was appealed by the Victorian novel because of: -The realism of setting: suitable to create debates in the readers’ mind -Every-day situations: readers identify with what they read

  5. Main characteristics • Third person intrusive omniscient narrator: the writer was considered an authority • Subliminal use of the language: writers were compelled to criticize in an undirected way • Exaggeration of the tones, characters and emotions

  6. Victorian writers:C. Dickens and W. M. Thackeray Charles Dickens -Use of the grotesque, caricature and pathos to create a tragic comical effect -Use of sense impressions William Makepeace Thackeray -Digressions used to teach to the reader -The pathetic is combined with caricature and satire

  7. The Victorian novels • Hard Times by Dickens Setting: the novel is set in “Coketown”. Imagine of the town creates thanks the use of sense impressions: sight: “a town of unnatural red and black” smell: “ill-smelling dye” hearing: “rattling and trembling” • Oliver Twist by Dickens Setting: the story is set in a workhouse. Themes: exploitation of children. Use of the grotesque to criticize social evils the narrator creates a gap between the real situation and the language used to describe it.

  8. Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens Use of rhetorical features: irony Nickleby is not able to express his thoughts, he has to conform to convention. • Vanity Fair by Thackeray Use of high register of language: theatrical language used to make a parody Intrusive and omniscient narrator: he acts as a filter and creates a dialogue with the reader

  9. The Anti-Victorian reaction:Thomas Hardy • Thomas Hardy focuses the attention on human behaviour • He criticized the contemporary institutions like marriage and Christianity in a directly way, which was not approved by the Victorian public • Creation of realistic and detailed situations

More Related