PAPER : VICTORIAN AGE

TOPIC: SALIENT FEATURES OF VICTORIAN AGEPREPARED BY : AVANI N. DAVEM.A,- SEM2ROLL NO: 02DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISHM.K BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY

E-C- 102: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

TOPIC: SAROJINI AS A POETPREPARED BY : AVANI N. DAVEM.A, - SEM – 1ROLL NO: 02DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISHM.K BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY

SALIENT FEATURES

1. INDIVIDUALITY: ORIGINALITY IN0 OUTLOOK, CHARACTER AND

STYLE

2. AGE OF PROSE AND NOVEL:Ruskin: ‘un to the Last’, ‘Time and Tide’

Carlyle: ‘Past and Present’ ‘French Revolution’

Dickens: ‘Olivet Twist’, ‘Pickwick Papers’

Thackeray: ‘The New Comer’. ‘Vanity Fair’, Henry Esmond

George Eliot: Middle march, Ramola.

Thomas Hardy : ‘Tess of D’ Urberville’.

Charles Bronte: ‘Jane Eyre’

3. LITERATURE FOR SOCIAL REFORM

Literature as Instrument of Social ReformContribution of Pre-Raphaelites

4.REVOLT AGAINST MATERIALISM

Morris was busy in legends and SagasSought their refuge in the past

Romanticism.

5. CONTINUOUS ROMANTICISM ‘’Ah, Love, Let us be true To one another’’.

6. LITERATURE FOR MORAL PURPOSE:

Departed from purely artistic standard of Art for art Sake

Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, and Ruskin – interested in their message

‘ Teachers of England ’.

7. PESSIMISM, OPTIMISM AND IDEALISM

‘‘ Between the two worlds, One is dead, The other powerless to be born ’’. - Mathew Arnold ‘‘God is in the Heaven All is right with the world.” – Browning ‘In Seven Lamp of Architecture’ Ruskin brings optimism and faith8. IMPACT OF SCIENCE: Scientific research can be heared in Tennyson’s ‘In

Memoriam’.

9. Patriotism : “ It is the land that freedom Till That sober suited freedom chose A land of settled government.” - Tennyson

10. HUMANITY: Shows the complexity and sensibility of human life. The Victorian poets and novelists added humanity to nature.

11 RISE OF REALISM: More novels showing the problems of contemporary society No romantic vesture in them.

This Presentation is Submitted to Department of English. M.K.S. Bhavnagar University.

Guide : Heena Madam