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Name______________________________________ Date________ Class ______Victorian Literature 1837-1901Literary History: Victorian NotesEssential QuestionsRomanticism The Romantics ______________ Victorian writing.Many Early Victorian novels blend ____________ and ______________.RealismRealism sought to capture ________________ life as it really was lived.Realism focused on the effects of the __________________ Revolution, which often brought _______________ _____________.________________ ___________ focused on the inner realities of the mind.NaturalismViewed nature and society as forces _____________ to human suffering.Naturalism created characters who are _____________ of their environment and internal drives beyond their control. It is an extreme and _________________ offshoot of realism that believes everything is explainable by natural and physical causes. SummaryEssential QuestionsStorytellers____________ ___________ was the era’s most popular storyteller. He wrote entertaining novels with farfetched plots that nevertheless exposed real __________ problems.The Bronte sisters wrote __________________ plots with Byronic heroes set against real and wild British landscapes.Popular writers created a pleasing sense of ___________ and worked to inspire change or _____________ behavior.SummaryEssential QuestionsNovelsNovels were VERY ____________ and often published as a series in magazines for the growing ______________ class.Victorian emphasis on family life created a popularity in _________ literature like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.Sir Author Doyle created detective Sherlock Holmes.Rudyard Kipling made the __________ story popular with his tales of British Imperialism in India.PoetryPoetry ____________ during the Victorian age.Lord Alfred Tennyson became poet laureate with musical public verse.Elizabeth Barrett Browning produced a bestseller with a volume ________ poems to her husband. Pre-Raphaelite poets such as Dante Rossetti and his sister Christina wrote against Victorian _________ and worked to bring back the clarity of medieval __________ style.Later in the era, Thomas Hardy and A.E. Houseman wrote with ___________ while Gerald Manley Hopkins experimented with rhythm.DramaThe Victorian Era is not known for its drama.Oscar Wilde wrote ________________ in the late 1890’s often associated with the time and its middle class.Most popular stage works of the period are really _________ _________ that ridicule social pretense. Summary of Victorian LiteratureVictorian Reading Extension: Use the information about “The Growth and Development of Fiction on pages 868-869 of your purple literature textbook to fill in the following information. Be sure to read carefully and completely fill in each statement.1. The ___________ was compared to the Internet as a new medium of ________________ that could benefit society.2. English writers began to see the novel as a form of ______________________ that had the ability to affect the lives of people from all works of life.3. At one time, the novel was viewed primarily as a form of _______________.4. In the mid-18th century, the novel saw the development of both ______________ and ____________________.5. The Victorian period is also called “ the _____________________”.6. Victorians wanted to document the lives and the _______________________.7. The novel became a tool for exposing ____________________.8. ______________________ works detailed the troubling state of England’s lower classes.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------19th Century’s sub-genres1. Historical Novels: combined historical facts with __________________ to re-create the spirit of a past age.2. _________________________ was based on historical accounts of the _______________.3. Gothic Novels: horror tales became ______________ in England near the turn of the 19th century.4. ____________________ represents the best example of _______________.5. Detective Novels: mystery is a major ingredient of __________________.6. __________________ was the world’s most famous detective.7. Newgate Novels: stories that focused on ____________ and their motives.8. These novels explored the nature of crime and _________________.9. _________________ was about the effects of ________ unrest and riot on the lives of a host of characters.10. Naturalism replaced _______________ in or around 1880.11. Naturalistic writing attempted to depict the human condition as objectively as ____________________ depicted the process of nature.12. Thomas Hardy portrayed a hostile world in which only the “________________________”.A Victorian GlossaryDirections: After reading about the British Victorian Period, use a dictionary and your textbook to define all of the bold faced terms for your notes. Looking for a challenge? Take it to the next level by creating a research paper about one of them. ................
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