Victorian Era Flashcards

(22 cards)

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The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)

A

Friedrich Engels
Discuss capital
- money
- what you can exchange for good.

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Captains of Inductry (1843)

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Thomas Carlyle
Man is working = man needs to work
Asks those to share money with the people below them.

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The Christmas Carol (1843)

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Charles Dickens
About: redemption of the rich and giving to the poor.
Scrooge: the change people needed to make and many business owners at that time.
- giving to the poor and how Scrooge changes in the end is how Carlyle wants the Captains of Industry to act.

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The charge of the light brigade (1850)

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Alfred Tennyson
Sounds like horses galloping

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5
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The lady of Shalott (1830)

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Alfred Tennyson
Lancelot, Camelot, Shalott
Ending sounds are the same

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Porphyria’s Lover (1834)

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Robert Browning
Before death= about him
After death= about her

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My last Duchess (1842)

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Robert Browning
In death, the duke is possessive duchess.

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Sonnets from the Portuguese #22 & #43 (1843)

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#43- soul loves even after death.
#22- what she loves about him

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9
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From Aurora Leigh (1846)

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“English women were models of the universe.”

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God’s Grandeur (1877)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nature and God

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Pied Beauty (1877)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
God is the reason for all these beautiful things in nature.

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Spring and Fall (1877)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Leaves.
Innocence
Spring and fall mean something from the earth

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Thou art indeed just, Lord (1889)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Questioning God

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14
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Dover beach (1853)

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Matthew Arnold
Talking to a lover
Solution= be true to one another

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1885)

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Robert Stevenson
About: divide of self
Lesson: you should not run with with science

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The white man’s burden (1888)

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Rudyard Kipling
Every stanza begins with the same line
Colonizing is not worth it.

17
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Gunga Din (1890)

A

Rudyard Kipling
Bullys the slave.
Gunga Din= better man than the narrator.

18
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When was queen victoria queen?

19
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Extreme population growth =

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Extreme poverty

20
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2 periods

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Hope and Disillusion

21
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Hope

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Carlyle
Dickens
Tennyson
R. Browning
E. Browning
Arnold

22
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Disillusion

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Hopkins
Stevenson
Kipling