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03/05/2009

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Progress
Definition
Progress- Britain, greatest country the world had ever seen. 19th century, British dominance. Most refined, learned, Christian the world had ever seen.
1.Darwinism-evolution,
2. Marxism,
Marxism- economics
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Prudery
Definition
Mormonism, sexual chastity, Victorian values= sex strictly for procreation, unmentionable, women had no sexual experience. Hypocritical, prostitutes population was booming, disease. (Dickens had a mistress)
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empire
Definition
victorian keyword. The sun never sets on the British Empire. The greatest the world had ever known. Apprx. 60% was under some sort of British rule.
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doubt
Definition
Victorian keyword. Most writers found God at the end of the day up to this point, an era of faith. This unit deals with doubt, science. Many intellectuals lost faith. Writers fight doubt, some succumb, other die with their faith.
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earnestness
Definition
serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous.
3 uses-sincere, zealous pursuing, sincerely important
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isolation
Definition
sepereate beings, can't connect
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solipsism
Definition
Hopkins- so obsessed with self, blind to outside world, drives one mad
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Great Exhibition
Definition
British crystal castle, burnt down, Industrial Revolution, symbolic.
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British Empire
Definition
Sun never sets on the British empire. 60%
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Industrial Revolution
Definition
turn to science, machine based society. Factory, child labor
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the industrial North
Definition
North more industrialized.
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What is the secret password to Cassie's heart?
Definition
Kelsey loves me.
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communism
Definition
Karl Marx
socioeconomic structure, classless, oppression free
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Utilitarianism
Definition
greatest good for the greatest #, Brigham Young
Christmas Carol- Dickens is writing against. Individual pursues own interests.
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sentimentalism
Definition
the sentamental tradition. moralistic, didactic, political. Character types. Stock plots, certain patterns all the same. Fem. virtue and how to preserve. Domestic sense, discussion of home values. Women writers. ie Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Malthusianism
Definition
decrease surplus population
A Christmas Carol-against
combines economic determinism w/ moral perscriptions as the basis of economic thought. he asserts an oscillating model rather than a linear model. its best to restrain the poor. looked at poverty as immorality, don't start family until stable income. no institutionalized charities. Viewed as cold hearted, rational, economic view.
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oscillation
Definition
The Great Towns by Engels. Progress? general increase, but poor back & forth
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didacticism
Definition
Stowe- Uncle Tom's Cabin, teach/preach
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the "Hungry '40's"
Definition
England. Starving, chaotic classes
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free verse
Definition
does not have a strict pattern of rhyming. It does not have regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or a specific stanza pattern.
Rossetti? Form fits subject
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slant rhyme
Definition
Emily Dickinson
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common verse
Definition
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cult of domesticity
Definition
influenced female writers. seperate spheres, where woman is.
Rosetti?, Jacobs- slavery ruins cult of domesticity
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tragic mulatta
Definition
mixed race, no identity/place, anmoly-half white. (miscegenation)
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slave narrative
Definition
Jacobs, Douglass, Stowe?
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miscegenation
Definition
the mixing of different racial groups, that is, marrying, cohabiting, having sexual relations and having children with a partner from outside one's racially or ethnically defined group.
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sympathetic identification
Definition
relation to chracter. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Higher Criticism
Definition
falling away from faith
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domesticity
Definition
home sphere
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the "fallen" woman
Definition
lost virginity, "Goblin Market" allegory
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allegory
Definition
story represents something outside of itself
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realism
Definition
Twain, Howells, James. True to life in writing
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carte de visite
Definition
primary commercial form of photograpy. changed form of society to visual
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mimesis
Definition
language reflects reality
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agency
Definition
no agencey? problem in Victorian society.
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local color/regionalism
Definition
Twain. Using vernacular.
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ethnography
Definition
Twain. Writer acts as social scientist of a particular place and time
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social problem novel
Definition
dig deeper. realist novel. ie. Huck Finn
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elegy
Definition
peom of mourning
In Memoriam
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serialization
Definition
printed on demand. Dickens
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mass culture
Definition
mass produce for the 1st time. Whitman
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visual culture
Definition
reality, mass production of photo
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disinterestedness
Definition
check bias at door. Matthew Arnold. look at object not subject.
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pre-Raphaelites
Definition
revitalized art. art for arts sake
the "fleshy school"
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inscape
Definition
snapshot of self. internal identity. Hopkins
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instress
Definition
process in whiche one projects inscape. Hopkins.
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sprung rhythm
Definition
imitate natural speech. Hopkins
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the "terrible sonnets"
Definition
Hopkins- Terror. Spiritual anguish expressed
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naturalism
Definition
phenomenon natural cause
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materialism
Definition
view that exists is materialistic.
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determinism
Definition
chance
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social Darwinism
Definition
Herbert Spencer "Survival of the Fitest."
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aestheticism/the "Aethetes"
Definition
worship beauty. art for arts sake
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decadence
Definition
name for Aesthetes, reject the prudery and earnestness of vicotian culture
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art for art's sake
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rejecting the didacticism and reformism of victorian art/lit
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Thomas Malthus
Definition
Malthusianism-greatest good for greatest #
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Queen Victoria
Definition
63 year reign, age of industiral progress.coronation 1837, died 1901
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Brigham Young
Definition
Utilitarianism. Travel narrative.
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Karl Marx
Definition
Communism manifesto
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Arthur Hallam
Definition
Tennyson's friend, sisters fiance. In Memoriam
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Annie Besant
Definition
white slavery
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Definition
pre-Raphaelite painter/poet.
Rossetti's bro
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Emile Zola
Definition
The Experimental Novel 1880. French. diagnosis of social pathologies, sickness of society. took Bernard's idea and related it to art.
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Claude Bernard
Definition
intor to Study of Medicine (1865) Science. Find cause and treat it
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