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The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
- shows that the industrial revolution has made things worst. Points out disease and mortality rate at 20
- Radical: put emphasis on the workers and socialism. Hates Capitalism thinks it is the source of all evil |
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Past and Present
- Conservative (For the Aristocracy)
- Paternal situation
- Need to find "our work"
- Liberty to die by starvation
- Captians of Industry (Aristocracy): Scrooge
- Liberty has everything to do with finding the right path
-A good leader will limit liberty, in limiting it, the liberty of the servant/working person is actually enabled. The whole less is more thing.
- Enchanted fruit (nobody can touch the wealth)
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A Review of Southey's Colloquies
-Capitalism! You do your own work (gov) and the people will do theirs. Invisible hand stuff |
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On Liberty
- Be an individual, but don't harm others: act according to your own judgement. Be eccentric!
- The people were had no inclination but to do that which was customary. Mill says no! Have inclinations to break out of custom.
- Persons of genius, meaning: more individual than any other persons.
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Autobiography
- Everlasting Nay!
- Sets aside ambition (super educated, wants to change the world) and begins to feel |
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A Christmas Carol
- Ghost Story tradition: go to the manor house and tell spirit stories
- Marley is the door knocker. Scrooge would normally see his reflection
- Scrooge wanted to be a Marley
- "He gives them words and looks" - that is what Dickens is doing. He is giving them words (book) and glances (glimpses into the problem)
- The children Want and Ignorance
- Ignorance is worse than want
- Ignorance: education, knowledge and understanding
- Want: the immediate problem (teach a man to fish situation)
- Social problems need to be solved through the individuals not the state. Scrooge solves the problems.
- Scrooge could be the captain of industry Carlyle talks about. He hoarded the money before too, it was enchanted. Like a dragon. Lots of money, but nothing to do with it. |
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Aurora Leigh, "Epic Art and Modern Life"
- Smash hit: much loved
- Sick and her dad didn't want her to marry
- Aurora Leigh is a kunstleroman and a "novel poem"
- Poet needs to have double vision: the ability to see things from afar and intimately close. The cliff analogy from class.
- Write about the beauty of the present age
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Modern Painters
Ideas
The Stones of Venice
Gothic
Life:
-an art critic by profession and he was very influential in what was accepted and what was not
- Loved the Pre-Raphaelites
- Utopian, founded the guild of St. George
- Not art for art's sake, but for a specific purpose: "a vehicle of thought." Art conveys ideas, the greatest possible amount.
Stones of Venice:
Discussion on Gothic Art
- The demand for perfection is always a sign of misunderstanding of the ends of art.
- Man doesn't stop working until a point of failure: there is no such thing of perfection in art
- imperfection is essential.
Nothing can be good unless it is imperfect
Virtue goes into the picture and the art impresses that virtue into the mind of the viewer
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The Scholar Gypsy
Goes on a journey to learn from the Gypsies.
Knowledge - lifeforce, mystery,
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past, freedom, mystic, nature, immortality?
Has he learned?
200 years have passed, still wandering, but the continuation of the quest is his way of returning
Learning is the escape from monotony. |
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The House of Life
The Sonnet (the coin imagery)
The Kiss (making love and kissing)
Nuptial Sleep (Epithalamion) What happens after the marriage is consummated Idea of unity and individuality |
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Hunt, Millias, Rosetti - reached back to the Medieval past. Wanted to go before the neo- classicists. "The Germ"
From nature, spiritual, symbolic and detailed, sensual "The Fleshy School" and Medieval
Royal Academy of Arts |
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The Renaissance
Textbook
- First voice of aestheticism - removing the morality of art that was so poignant in the high victorian era
- impossibility to define beauty universally and in the abstract
- It is by one’s reaction to art, by the pleasurable reaction we feel, that we can determine what is good art and what is not.
- It is almost scientific in method, the observation of art, in that one must take note of the ways a piece moves him.
Mona Lisa
- It is as though she is immortal, older than the rocks that surround, forever being reborn like a vampire. Thus she is the embodiment of the old fancey, the symbol of the modern idea. - experience is the tool by which we should measure life
- We understand the world by the effect our experiences have on us |
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The Decay of Lying
A lie is a beautiful untruth
He dislikes realism - bashes Henry James
Life (nature) imitates art
Cyril: Nature or Romantics, realist - anyone who is in opposition
Vivian: generally considered to be Wilde
Art teaches us how to interpret nature and beauty, it improves upon Nature |
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| Socrates figure - Oscar Wilde in the decay of lying |
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| Nature, Romantics, Realists, all those who are in opposition to Wilde |
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| an ultra-refined sophistication of taste allied with moral perversity |
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| Artists who are inclined to the decadent movement, but have a real social consciousness. They go out and give art to the masses |
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| Meant to be a derogatory phrase, but became a rallying call. Represents the woman who attends college, wears bloomers, defies dress, smokes and rides a bicycle. |
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| (1880s - WWI) From Victorian to modern |
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Reaction against the values of Victorianism - earnestness, duty, progress, faith and doubt
Constantly yearning for the intense |
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| Carlyle the Scrooges the paternal system |
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Fra Lippo Lippi
- Dramatic Monologue
- He is an monk painter who was caught at a brothel
- caught by the guards and tries to explain himself and ends up talking about art
- Most importantly, Fra Lippo Lippi describes Browning’s views on art. He believes that the purpose of art is to share the everyday, truth, and absolute good around us wherever it comes from.
- First when we see them painted, things we have passed
Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;
And so they are better, painted—better to us |
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