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Victorian and Anti-Victorian Voices |
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| Authors: |
Kitsi, Aikaterini Kanarakis, Ioannis Yiannopoulou, Efthymia |
| Reviewer: |
Apostolou, Foteini |
| Subject: | HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > VISUAL ARTS HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PERFORMING ARTS HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERATURE |
| Keywords: |
British Literature
19th-21st Century The Woman Question Industrialization Fin-de-siecle Art Realism Modernism Rise & Fall Of The Empire Postmodernism Romanticism Victorianism Ethinic Identidiy |
| Description: | |
| Abstract: |
This chapter is 59 pages long. It contains pictures, tables with definitions of terms, primary and secondary material, links to related webpages and a bibliography.
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| Table of Contents: |
1.Introduction
2. The Historical Context a) A. The Early Victorian Period (1830-1858): A Time of Upheavals b)B. The Mid-Victorian Period (1848-1870): Prosperity and Optimism c) C. The Late Victorian Period (1870-1901): Decline and Pessimism 3. INDUSTRIALISM and INDIVIDUALISM a)The Condition of England b)The Social Problem Novel c) Victorian Individualism and Collectivism d) Individualism and Poetry: The Dramatic Monologue e)The Self and the Community in Victorian Fiction f)Escaping Industrialism: The Return to the Past and Medievalism 4. Domesticity and the Woman Question a)Two Separate Spheres: The Cult of Domesticity b)The Woman Question and the Matrimonial Causes Act c)Women’s Representation in Poetry by Men d) Women’s Representation in Literature by Women e) The New Woman and the Decline of Domesticity 5. Religion and the Evolutionary Theory a) Crisis of Faith b) Evolutionary Theory and Charles Darwin c) Science and Art: Realism d)Degeneration: From Progression to Regression 6. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire a) The Rise of the British Empire b) Imperial Decline 7. Culture and Aesthetics a)Culture and Anarchy b) Aestheticism: The Cult of Beauty c)Decadence 8. Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the 20th and 21st Century 9. Conclusion |
| Technical Editors: |
Paschalis, Anastasios |
| Type: |
Chapter |
| Creation Date: | 2015 |
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| License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
| Spatial Coverage: |
Britain, Europe, UK |
| Temporal Coverage: |
19th century |
| Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/942 |
| Bibliographic Reference: | Kitsi, A., Kanarakis, I., & Yiannopoulou, E. (2015). Victorian and Anti-Victorian Voices [Chapter]. In Kitsi, A., Kanarakis, I., & Yiannopoulou, E. 2015. Movements and Trends in 19th- and 20th-Century English Literature [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/942 |
| Language: |
English |
| Is Part of: |
Movements and Trends in 19th- and 20th-Century English Literature |
| Technical Requirement: |
NO |
| Number of pages |
59 |
| Typical Learning Time: |
PT03H00M00S |
| Version: |
1st |
| Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |