Concepts drawn from these theories provide the basis for a content analysis of random samples of five works of each of the four types of literature. The results of the content analysis show that these four types of literature which emerged during the late Victorian era can be understood in Weberian terms as expressions of the different responses to the domination of instrumental rationality in the modern world.
These new types of literatures are reflections of both the hope and despair in late Victorian society, as well as the objective conditions that gave rise to such sentiments.
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But she becomes disillusioned and finds herself attracted to his nephew Will Ladislaw. Social realism focuses on the foibles, eccentricities, and remarkable characteristics of people, who are frequently caricatured. Often comic and sometimes tragicomic , it is best exemplified by the work of Charles Dickens. In novels like Oliver Twist in which Dickens uses the plight of the orphan Oliver to critique a heartless orphanage overseen by eccentric bumblers, Dickens both criticized the social system and created a vibrant world of memorable characters.
In his masterpiece Bleak House Dickens takes aim at the bureaucratic excesses of the court system as seen in the never-ending court case Jarndyce v. The rapid transformation of Britain into an industrial society prompted some writers to write novels which exposed the difficult plight of the working class. Joseph Conrad took a more skeptical stance toward imperialism in Heart of Darkness , in which the sailor Marlow journeys through the Belgian Congo.
Although ostensibly about the Belgian rather than the British Empire, Marlow informs his fellow sailors that his tale applies to Britain as well.
With the cheaper price of printing, British journalism and periodical writing flourished and formed a significant part of Victorian literary production. Professional female journalists like Harriet Martineau and prominent reformers like Florence Nightingale also used the periodical press to raise awareness about important issues in British society. Finally, important figures in British literature were also frequent contributors to the periodical press.
Dickens ran a literary magazine called Household Words , while Eliot edited the Westminster Review for several years. Tess gives birth to a child out of wedlock, which causes the husband she later marries to shun her when he finds out. At the same time that Hardy envisioned bleak outcomes of human striving and Doyle and Wells developed new genres, Oscar Wilde wrote hilariously witty plays like The Importance of Being Earnest which describes the comic endeavors of two men who are trying to marry two women, both of whom are determined to marry men named Ernest.
Carol T. Christ and Catherine Robson. New York: Norton, Psychological realism Psychological realism emphasizes portraying the rich inner life of characters — their thoughts, feelings, motivations, anxieties, etc.
March 7, : Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell is awarded a patent on his invention of the telephone, and, three days later, famously makes the first phone call to Thomas Watson, his assistant. May 1, : India, which has been under British rule since , declares Queen Victoria empress, under direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. She is succeeded by Edward VII, her eldest son, who reigned until his death in But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present.
Liquid nitrogen. High-end machines. Savory ice cream. Complex molds and intricate toppings. These might sound like things you might find in a fancy restaurant, but they were also the tools of a 19th-century woman who revolutionized home cooking. Long before Martha Stewart, Agnes People lived to an average age of just 40 in 19th-century England, but that number is deceiving.
Certainly, infants and children died of disease, malnutrition and mishaps at much higher rates than they do today. But if a girl managed to survive to
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