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Amity Institute of English Studies & Research

History of English literature


VICTORIAN AGE
 Industrial revolution
 Queen Victoria- (1837-1901)
 Chartist Act-1838
 The Great Exhibition-1851
 Origin of Species- 1859
 Queen becomes the Empress of India-1876,
(Under the direction of Benjamin Disraeli.)

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VICTORIAN COMPROMISE
Science
Vs
Religion
Progress, stability, great social reforms
vs
Poverty, injustice and social unrest
The Great Victorian age in literature (book)

g.k
chersterton
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VICTORIAN PROSE
 Thomas Carlyle
 French Revolution (1837)
 Heroes and Hero-Worship
 Past and Present (1843)
 the Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1845)
 Sartor Resartus

 Matthew Arnold-
 On Translating Homer (1861)
 The Study of Celtic Literature (1867)
 Essays in Criticism (1865 and 1888)
 Culture and Anarchy (1869)
 Literature and Dogma
 John Ruskin
 Unto this last
 Thomas Babington Lord Macaulay
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VICTORIAN POETRY
 Focus on sensory elements
 Themes of the religion/science conflict
 Its interest in medieval fables and legends.
 Dramatic Monologue

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VICTORIANPOETRY

Mathew Arnold
 Dover Beach
 Rugby Chapel
 Thyrsis
 Sohrab and Rustom
 Empedocles on Etna
 Balder Dead
 The scholar Gypsy
 Memorial verses
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VICTORIANPOETRY

Robert browning
 My Last Duchess
 Andrea Del Sarto
 Prospice
 Last Ride together
 Porphyria’s lover
 Pied piper of Haemlin
 Fra lippo lippi
 Rabbi Ben Ezra

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VICTORIANPOETRY

Alfred Tennyson
 Ulysses
 Tithonus
 Lotus Eaters
 In Memorium
 Lady of Shalott
 Défense of Lucknow
 Princess

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PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD
 A group of English painters, poets and critics
 Established in 1858
 Rejected the mechanistic approach adopted by
 Pre-Raphaelite- They felt Raphael’s approach
was a corruption influence on the academic teaching
of art.

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PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD
 Founding members:
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 William Holman Hunt
 John Everett Millais
 Co-joined by:
 William Michael Rossetti
 James Collison
 Frederic George Stephens
 Thomas Woolner

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PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD

 Dante Gabriel Rossetti


 Blessed Damozel
 Sister Helen
 My sister’s sleep
 The house of life

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PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD

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SYMBOLISM
 An art movement in France during the 19 th century.
 Later taken up by the European and American poets of 20 th
century.
 Absolute truth or emotions are expressed through symbols and
metaphorical images.
 Came as a rection to realism and Naturalism
 Verlaine and Rimbaud were greatly influenced by the poetry and
thought of Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (1857)

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SYMBOLISM
 Stéphane Mallarme
 Paul Verlaine
 Arthur Rimbaud
 Jules Laforgue
 Henri de Régnier
 René Ghil
 Gustave Kahn
 Georges Rodenbach
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IMAGISM
 Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century Anglo-
American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear,
sharp language.
 Ezra pound
 H.d (hilda Doolittle)
 Ford Maddox ford
 William Carlos Williams
 F.s flint
 T.e hulme

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WAR POETS
 Isaac Rosenberg
 Wilfred Owen
 Siegfried Sassoon
 Rupert Brook

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STREAM OF CONCIOUSNESS

 Stream of consciousness is a style or technique of


writing that tries to capture the natural flow of a
character's extended thought process, often by
incorporating sensory impressions, incomplete
ideas, unusual syntax, and rough grammar.

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STREAM OF CONCIOUSNESS

 The term was used by William James in his


work Principles of Psychology.
 Stream of consciousness writing is associated
with the early 20th-century Modernist movement.

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AFRICAN
LITERATURE
 Chinua Achebe
 Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 Ben Okri
 Andre Brink
 Alan Paton
 Nadine Gordimer
 J.M Coetzee
 Wole Soyinka
 Tony Morrison
 Alice Walker
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AUSTRALIAN
LITERATURE
 Patrick White
 David Malouf
 Peter Philip Carey
 Judith Wright
 A.D Hope
 Germaine Greer

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CANADIAN LITERATURE
 Alistair Macleod
 Margaret Atwood
 Susanna Moodie
 Margaret Lawrence
 Yann Martel
 Rawi Hage
 Lawrence Hill
 Carol Shields
 Alice Munroe
 Michael Ondaatje
 Saul Bellow

*Garrison – Resistance towards alien culture, cultural intrusion or colonization.

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CARRIBEAN LITERATURE
 George lamming
 V.S Naipaul
 Derek Walcott
 Kamau Braithwaite
 Sam Selvon
 Jamaica Kincaid
 Alexander Street

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INDIAN
LITERATURE
 Toru Dutt
 Raja Rao
 R.K Narayan
 Mulk Raj Anand
 Shri Aurobindo
 Sarojini Naidu
 Mahatma Gandhi
 Rabindranath Tagore
 Arun Kolathkar

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