Victorian Flashcards
(13 cards)
What time was this
1880-1910
What is it called where you write what is real
Naturalism and realism
Aestheticism
Walter Pater “art for arts sake”
Cynicism
Erosion of Christian values because of Darwinism vs Christian mortality
Working class?
Rise of voice for the working class, labour movement rise in the 1890s
End of a century
Fin de siècle
Homosexuality
Secret, criminal
Women
Female emancipation, suffragettes early 1900s
Psychology
Freud and the unconscious
What genre fiction was going on
Sci-fi, detective, late gothic, children’s
Gothic?
Doubleness , category crisis, eruption of past into present, horror of self, transgression and the body
Marxist
Karl Marx class struggle
What was there a massive focus in in writing
Morality and values, books were good if they advertised good morals