the most popular literary genre in the victorian age was… the novel why? because...
DESCRIPTION
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL ……………. narrator The setting was usually the….. The plot was long and complex. FEATURES In the final chapter there were reward and…………… rigid barrier between right and wrong symbol of the evils of industrialism Omniscient city Writers concentrated on the creation of…………… characters punishmentTRANSCRIPT
THE MOST POPULAR LITERARY GENRE IN THE VICTORIAN AGE WAS…
THE NOVEL WHY?
Because the……………… read a lot of literature.middle classesThey borrowed books from circulating libraries and read periodicals.
Many novels were published in instalments in periodicals.
Readers could influence the writer!THEREFORE
Novels were read aloud in the family.Many readers were ………. who spent more time at home.
women
Many writers were also women but had to use a male pseudonym
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
The writers felt they had a moral and social responsibility.
They showed the evils of society…
Their criticism was not ……….
… and denounced them.
AIMS
They only made readers aware of social injustices.
BUT… radical
They did not incite the poor to rebel.
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
……………. narrator
The setting was usually the…..
The plot was long and complex.
FEATURES
In the final chapter there were reward and……………
rigid barrier between right and wrong
symbol of the evils of industrialism
Omniscient
city
Writers concentrated on the creation of……………characters
punishment
He was born in Portsmouth in 1812.
Later he became a parliamentary reporter and a journalist.
CHARLES DICKENS
He had an unhappy childhood because his father was imprisoned for debt and he had to start working in a factory at an early age.
LIFE
1812-1870
In the 1830s he started his brilliant career as a novelist.
He died in London in 1870 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
His most famous works include:
They deal with exploited children in slums and factories
CHARLES DICKENS WORKS
1812-1870
They deal with social issues, like the conditions of the poor and the working class
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
His autobiographical novels
Little Dorrit
Bleak House
Hard Times
Great Expectations
He was mainly a storyteller.
He denounced the spiritual and material corruption of …………………
CHARLES DICKENS
industrialism
He became increasingly critical but he never incited the poor to rebel.
He only made readers aware of social injustices ….
… to stimulate the common sense of all classes to relieve suffering.
His plots were well-planned but at times artificial and sentimental. The setting was the industrial town, usually London.
FEATURES
1812-1870
He created …………………. of middle and lower class people.
CHARLES DICKENS
CARICATURES
He ………… their social characteristics, vanity and ambition.
He was always on the side of…
ONE OF DICKENS’S BEST QUALITIES WAS HIS HUMOUR
mocked
the poor
the outcastthe working class
children
Often wiser than adults and moral models for adults
CHARACTERS
ONE OF THE MAIN PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES IN THE VICTORIAN AGE
WAS.........
UTILITARIANISM
Only what is ……….. is good.
It was a materialistic theory rooted in reason and common sense.
Because useful actions bring.....
useful
...the greatest ................ happiness for the greatest number of people.
It was based on .................................. ‘s principles. Jeremy Bentham
material
It denounces the gap between the…
It criticises…
CHARLES DICKENS HARD TIMES 1854
=rich and poor factory owners and factory workers
MATERIALISM UTILITARIANISM
It is set in an imaginary industrial town called ……………….COKETOWN
INDUSTRIALISM
It criticises…
CHARLES DICKENS
embodied by…
who treats his workers like machines
teaching them only FACTS…
HARD TIMES 1854
UTILITARIANISM
Mr Bounderby
Mr Gradgrind
who treats his students like machines
… neglecting their imagination and their personality