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What is the first Victorian theme?

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Gender, sexuality, domestic ideology

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What is the second Victorian theme?

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Poverty, unrest, social criticism

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What is the third Victorian theme?

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Doubt, self-reflection, Romanticism

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What is the fourth Victorian theme?

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Art, aesthetics, critique of Victorian values

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What is the fifth Victorian theme?

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Progress, science, colonial expansion

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Who was Sarah Stickney Ellis?

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She wrote Female Conduct Guides: home managers for the advancement of husbands and sons

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Denis de Rougement’s Theory

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passion must entail obstructions (pleasure is forbidden, pain, yearning, never obtaining)

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Niklas Luhmann’s Book

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Love as Passion

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Medieval Courtly Love

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the idealization of love because of beauty

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Amour

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the passion of the 17th-18th century French aristocracy, sexuality, illicit love affairs

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Romantic love

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marrying due to desire and affection

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19th Century English Marriage

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to secure establishment for females, to have families as a duty to God and country

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Passion

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Inherently opposed to reason
Overrides thoughts, self-control
Irrational, wrong, dangerous, can’t help yourself
Not just risk, inevitable, unavoidable, unendurable pain, sorrow, death (ex. Romeo and Juliet, “parting is such sweet sorrow”)

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Lord Byron

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Handsome, charming, and sexually unconventional
Abandoned by dad, volatile mom, molested by nursemaid
Inherits title, loves Greece, celebrity, marries, meets up with Shelleys
Dies @ 36, one of the first focal points of modern journalism

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Addiction

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Alcohol safer than untreated water
Cholera epidemics common
Boil drinks (tea) or drink alcohol
Opium, opiates, and laudanum are common treatments for both kids and adults
Recreational drug use also flourished

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Confession of an English Opium-Eater

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(1821) autobiography of laudanum addiction

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Dangerous Drugs Act of 1920

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banned opium

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Coverture

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upon marriage, a wife’s legal status, property, and existence were subsumed by that of her husband’s
Once married, everything she had or will have is his alone, with no legal recourse in case of infidelity, abuse, neglect

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“Madwoman in the Attic”

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Gilbert and Gubar - highly influential
Thesis: confinement of female characters to “angel” and “monster” stemmed from male writer’s tendency to categorize women
Argument: must kill off both monster and angel because neither is accurate

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Brontes’ House

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Haworth Parsonage

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Brontë Sisters Portrait

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Books, dark colors, fold/creases on painting, discovered years after their death (1914), painted by brother Branwell (edited self out), positioned himself in center, replacement looks like a light beam
Charlotte (18) Emily (16) Anne (14)

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Juvenilia

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Work made during artist/author’s youth
12 toy soldiers → fantasy world “Glass Town federation”
Charlotte and Branwell - Angria, continued to write in minute script
Emily and Anne - Gondal (very important to Emily)
Combined fact and fiction, based on historical figures
Presided over their stories as genii
Wrote from childhood into their 20s

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Poetry

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Charlotte discovers Emily’s poetry
Anne and Charlotte have also been writing
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846) - hid names with Christian, masculine names
Sisters spend evenings in their sitting room discussing writings (after poetry is published)

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Charlotte’s poetry

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200+ poems about Glasstown or Angria, some biographical, experimented
Her wish to be “forever known” as a poet
Developing ability to express feelings, how she was influenced by other writers

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Anne's poetry
59 surviving poems, often writes in common meter Subject matter varies: Gondal, religious, William Weightman, natural world, “exile” as governess, homesickness
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Emily's poetry
found most favor, one of the great English Poets Furious Charlotte read them, finally agrees to publish Edited out Gondal references, 200 poems, nature poet, intense, purposeful, emptiness
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Oxford Movement
Anglican academics at oxford frustrated with Church of England
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High Anglicanism
movement towards Roman Catholic roots and resistance to religious modernization
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Tractarian Movement
leading anglican figures to publish tracts criticizing the church
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Governess
Teach children in private household Still lady in society Inferior, isolated in domestic and public relations
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Gothic Tradition
“All the extravagances of an irregular fancy” Literature: middle ages, catholic countries, gloomy castles, dungeons, subterraneous passages, sliding panels, innocent heroine, cruel villain, ghosts, disappearances, supernatural Evokes gloom, chilling terror, mystery, horror Mood → atmosphere, feeling Dolls, doppelgangers, stuffed animals, prosthetics, robots, zombies, corpses, etc.
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The Victorian Age
Queen Victoria (1837-1901) 9 children, family seen as model for society
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The Women Question
19th century debate over women’s proper place and characteristics
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"Angel in the House"
Coventry Patmore argues virtue of fleshless desire, beauty - saint, eliminates physical, sexual, eulogizes first wife, problematic pedestal of high standards, best seller, harmful idealization of women
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Separate Spheres
women - private sphere, men - public sphere
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Victorian Ideal
wife/mother devoted to children (male), submissive to husband
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Female novel reading
transgression (1) women impressionable (2) disrupted reproductive health
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Bildungsroman
German coming of age story
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Diectic
word/phrase meaning grammatically, contextually important (first line of Jane Eyre)
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In media res
in the middle of things (start)
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Romance (Genre)
love story focused on heroine, ending happily
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Hapax Legomenon
“something said only once”: genuinely unique all other historical occurrences are lost (ex. Wuthering: windy, blustering, indicating bad weather)
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Frame Narrative
larger story contains smaller ones
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Common Meter
metrical pattern, ballad
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Fop
perjorative terms for 17th century men concerned with aesthetic and pleasure
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Foppish
disinterested, bored, cavalier, vain, foolish
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Dandyism
late Victorian new aestheticized mode of dress and lifetsyle
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The Uncanny
Sigmund Freud 1919 essay defines as a psychological feeling when something familiar is made unfamiliar (creepy return of what is repressed)
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The Sublime
feelings from grand landscapes, combo of fear and terror, admiration and awe, sense of wonder
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Doppelganger
“double-goer”, double or evil twin, both complementing and antithetical manifestation, dark omen
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1812
Patrick and Maria marry
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1842
William Weightman dies
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1845
Patrick dismissed in disgrace
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1846
Poems published
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1847
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey published
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1848
Tenant of Wildfell Hall published
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1848-9
Branwell, Emily, and Anne die
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1853
Villette published
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Brontes in age order
Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Patrick, Emily, Anne
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Poems by Charlotte
"The Teacher's Monologue" (pp. 6-8) "Passion" (pp. 8-10) "Preference" (pp. 10-12) "Parting" (pp. 12-13) "On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë" (p. 15) "On the Death of Anne Brontë" (pp. 15-16)
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Poems by Emily
"Faith and Despondency" (pp. 17-18) "Stars" (pp. 19-20) "The Philosopher" (pp. 20-21) "Remembrance" (p. 22) "The Prisoner: A Fragment" (pp. 27-28) "Hope" (p. 29) "Plead for Me" (pp. 34-35) "Death" (pp. 37-38) "Stanzas to -----" (pp. 38-39) "Stanzas" (p. 39) "The Night-Wind" (pp. 42-43) "No Coward Soul Is Mine" (pp. 43-44)
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Poems by Anne
"A Reminiscence" (p. 45) "If This Be All" (p. 48) "Memory" (pp. 49-50) "Past Days" (pp. 50-51) "Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day" (p. 51) "The Bluebell" (pp. 55-57)

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