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Victorian Age – Social History of England

About the Author: Abirlal Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

Founder, Chair of the Secretaries of University Learner, India School on Internet Governance Fellow 2024, IIM-B, Member of Internet Society, Bangalore, Internal Complaints Committee Member, GITAM Deemed to be University, Bengaluru, Teach for India Fellow 2023 and Fellowship Recruitment Committee, Delhi

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 Historic background

Literary Movements:
  1. Oxford movement
  2. Aesthetic Movement
  3. Pre-rapaelite Movement/Brotherhood
  4. Science-religion Conflict
Victorian poetry
Early Phase (1837-1848)
Mid (1848-1870)
Late (1870-1901)
Characteristics:
  1. Realism
  2. Focus on Simplicity
  3. Pessimism
  4. Science and Technology
  5. Existence of God
  6. Sense of Responsibility
  7. morality
  8. Interest in Medieval Myth and folkore
  9. Sentimentalism
  10. Humour
  11. dramatic Monologue
Poets
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809- 1892)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Arthur Hugh clough (1819-1861)
Pre-Rephalite Poets
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1935)
Short Stories
Oscar Wilde
  1. The Nightingale and the Rose
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