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Title Details:
Victorian and Anti-Victorian Voices
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.
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
Item Details:
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