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The Major Victorian Authors, Genres, and Themes

The Major Victorian Authors, Genres, and Themes. Nate Fowler and James Harper. Differences Between Romantic and Victorian. Intuition Nature- Harmonious Individual, Common man, Imagination. Moral Purpose Idealistic Nation, Middle Class, Reality, Work. Themes, Motifs, and Concerns.

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The Major Victorian Authors, Genres, and Themes

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  1. The Major Victorian Authors, Genres, and Themes Nate Fowler and James Harper

  2. Differences Between Romantic and Victorian • Intuition • Nature- Harmonious • Individual, Common man, Imagination • Moral Purpose • Idealistic • Nation, Middle Class, Reality, Work

  3. Themes, Motifs, and Concerns • Social Class • Morality • Coincidence • Gender role • Ambition

  4. Main Characteristics:Allegory • Systematic Symbolism • Pilgrim’s Progress • Veiled Meanings

  5. Main Characteristics:Fantasy • Dream Structure • Ground Rules

  6. Main Characteristics:the Grotesque • “The Grotesque is the Estranged World!” • Disharmony

  7. Main Characteristics:Gothic • The Supernatural • The Atavism

  8. Main Characteristics:Melodrama • Suspenseful • Usage of music

  9. Main Characteristics:Realism • Physical, material details of life. • Here and now. • Advancement of Society.

  10. Main Characteristics:Detective fiction • “The WhoDunIt” • The Thriller

  11. Thomas Hardy • Wrote novels, short stories, and poems • Implicit theme • Wessex • The Mayor of Casterbridge

  12. George Elliot • Mary Ann Evans • Appreciation of goodness, perception of reality, precision of expression • Happiness is reward for caring • Middlemarch

  13. Robert Louis Stevenson • Travel books and adventure novels • Aimed for perfection • Battles, murder, and sudden death • Question of good and evil • Treasure Island

  14. Arthur Conan Doyle • Physician and Writer • Sherlock Holmes • Medical Knowledge • Detective Novels • The Cap

  15. William Thackeray • Humorist writer • Wrote the truth • Aim to expose false values in society • Vanity Fair

  16. Willkie Collins • Inventor of sensation novel • Charles Dickens • No Name

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