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Brit Lit
The Early Victorians
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05/04/2005

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Newman
Definition
1. Wrote the Apologia in response to Kingsley’s accusations of intellectual dishonest
2. Converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845
3. Believed that in order to avoid erosion of the faith was to accept the final authority of the church
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Elizabeth Browning
Definition
1. Was more popular than her husband
2. A victim of oppression and an effective rebel against it
3. Wrote “The Cry of the Children” (one of the first installments of oppression brought about by the Industrial Revolution
4. Also wrote Sonnets From the Portuguese, “A Year’s Spinning” Aurora Leigh, and “Mother and Poet”
5. Achieved much in dramatic monologue
Term
Carlyle
Definition
1. All political and/or religious ideas
2. To him, change equaled progress
3.Discribes the “Disease of the Times”-excessive self-consciousness
4. His “healthy alternative is to “do more, think less”
5. Believes the cause if this disease is the disappearance of the Christian faith--spiritual uncertainty
6. Wrote portraits of his contemporaries
7. Also wrote Sartor Resartus, The French Revolution and Past and Present
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Tennyson
Definition
1. Wrote Ulysses-a dramatic monologue--speaking to a fictitious audience
2. Poet Laureate
3. Poetic achievements include, the mastery of sound, sympathetic imagination and dramatization, quotable turn of phrase
4. Was flexible/versatile in voice, source and genre
5. Wrote In Memoriam and the Idylls of the King
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Arnold
Definition
1. Believed strongly in culture, enemies of which included Science (purely one sided), Puritans (Christian view of wrong and right is too rigid), and Philistines (justify vulgarity, hideousness and ignorance)
2. Used Greeks as a model
3. Believed the highest culture required people to not be activists
4. Acknowledges the importance of linking Truth, Beauty and Goodness
5. Indifference to human suffering
6. His poems are wistfully elegiac
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Bronte
Definition
Wutheing Heights
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Clough
Definition
1. “The Latest Decalogue”--parody of Christians’ greed as licensed by laissez faire economics
2. Believed theology to be judged by reason (a mental operation or an experience)
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Huxley
Definition
1. Believed one must choose between science and scripture
2. Believed the scientific approach to life was our best hope
3. Was hostile to the Christian faith and regards it as superstition and an impediment to progress
4. Saw Christians as intellectually dishonest, preventive of any real advances in knowledge, promoters of violence and injustice, and possessing beliefs that devalue this world in favor of the next
5. Holds the Bible in respect as a basis for culture
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Meredith
Definition
1. Wrote many novels
2. Best known for The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
3. Is somewhat of a biographical author
4. Wrote Modern Love in which married/moral love as highly exalted in comparison to courtly love, seen as adulterous, brief and sullied
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C. Rossetti
Definition
1. Lyric devotional: “Up-Hill”
2. Conversational (Q & A)
3. Narrative fable: “Goblin Market”
4. Ballad: “No Thank You, John”
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Morris
Definition
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