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What is Cultural Studies? Five types of Cultural Studies.
v Definition & Meaning:-
Cultural studies is an innovative
interdisciplinary field of research and teaching that investigates the ways in
which “culture” creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life,
social relations and power. Research and teaching in the field explores the
relations between culture understood as human expressive and symbolic
activities, and cultures understood as distinctive ways of life. Combining the
strengths of the social sciences and the humanities, cultural studies draws on
methods and theories from literary studies, sociology, communications studies,
history, cultural anthropology, and economics. By working across the boundaries
among these fields, cultural studies addresses new questions and problems of
todays world. Rather
than seeking answers that will hold for all time, cultural studies develops
flexible tools that adapt to this rapidly changing world.
Cultural life is
not only concerned with symbolic communication, it is also the domain in which
we set collective tasks for ourselves and begin to grapple with them as
changing communities. Cultural studies is devoted to understanding the
processes through which societies and the diverse groups within them come to
terms with history, community life, and the challenges of the future.
v Western Culture :-
The term
Western culture has come to define the culture of European countries as well as
those such as the United
States that
have been heavily influenced by European immigration. Western culture has its
roots in the Classical Period of the Greco-Roman era and the rise of
Christianity in the 14th century. Other drivers of the Western culture
include Latin, Celtic, Germanic and Hellenic ethnic and linguistic groups.
Today, the influences of Western culture can be seen in almost every country in
the world.
v Eastern Culture :-
Eastern culture generally refers to the
societal norms of countries in Far East Asia (including China, Japan, Vietnam, North Korea and South Korea)
and theIndian subcontinent. Like the West, Eastern
culture was heavily influenced by religion during its early development. In
general, in Eastern culture there is less of a distinction between secular
society and religious philosophy than there is in the West.
v Latin Culture :-
Many of the Spanish-speaking nations are
considered part of the Latin culture, while the geographic region is
widespread. Latin America is typically defined as those parts of the Central
America, South America and Mexico where Spanish or Portuguese are the dominant languages.
While Spain and Portugal are on the European continent, they are considered the
key influencers of what is known as Latin culture, which denotes people using
languages derived from Latin, also known as Romance languages.
v
Middle
Eastern Culture :-
The
countries of the Middle East have some but not all things in common, including
a strong belief in Islam and religion is a very strong pillar of this society.
The Arabic language is also common throughout the region; however, the wide
variety of dialect can sometimes make communication difficult.
v African Culture :-
The continent of Africa is essential two
cultures — North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. The continent is comprised of a
number of tribes, ethnic and social groups. One of the key features of this
culture is the large number of ethnic groups — some countries can have 20 or
more — and the diversity of their beliefs Northwest Africa in particular has
strong ties to European and Southwestern Asia. The area also has a heavy
Islamic influence and is a major player in the Arab world. The harsh
environment has been a large factor in the development of Sub-Saharan Africa
culture, as there are a number of languages, cuisines, art and musical styles
that have sprung up among the far-flung populations.
Cultural
Studies traces the relationships among aesthetic, anthropological, and
political economic aspects of cultural production and reproduction.
Cultural studies scholars and practitioners often begin their inquiries by
questioning the common understandings, beliefs, and histories that shape our
world. This type of inquiry assumes that culture is not a fact to be
understood and explained. What demands attention is how culture
constitutes diverse worlds and how it can be mobilized to change those worlds.
Cultural
Studies relies on interdisciplinary research on the formation of knowledge,
power, and difference. Cultural Studies scholars and practitioners
explore constructions of race, class, ability, citizenship, gender, and
sexuality in their effort to understand the structures and practices of
domination and resistance that shape contemporary societies. Many different
topics surface as part of this exploration: everyday practices that structure
the creation and reception of cultural artefacts; relations between producers
and consumers in the circulation of global commodities; claims to membership in
particular communities as they undergo transformation.
After
discussion of What is culture? And What is cultural studies? Let’s elaborate
types of cultural studies.
Five Types of Cultural Studies :-
As we know that
1.
First, :-
cultural
studies transcends the confines of a particular discipline such as literary
criticism or history. Cultural studies involves scrutinizing the cultural
phenomenon of a text and drawing conclusions about the changes in textual
phenomena over time.
2.
Second, :-
cultural studies is politically engaged.
Cultural critics see themselves as “oppositional,” not only within their own
disciplines but to many of the power structures of society at large.
3.
Third, :-
cultural studies denies the separation of
“high” and “low” or elite and popular (mass) culture. Rather than
determining which are the “best” works produced, cultural critics describe what
is produced and how various productions relate to one another. Cultural critics
aim to reveal the political, economic reasons why a certain cultural product is
more baled at certain times than others.
4.
Finally, :-
cultural
studies analyzes not only the cultural work, but also the means of production.
Cultural studies joins subjectivity– that is, culture in relation
to individual lives– with engagement, a direct approach to
attacking social ills.
Now
let’s talk about Five Types of Cultural Studies.
v Five Types of Cultural Studies :-
1.
British
Cultural Materialism
2. New Historicism
3. American Multiculturalism
ü African
American Writers
ü Latina/o
Writers
ü American
Indian Literatures
ü Asian
American Writers
4. Postmodernism and Popular Culture
5. Postcolonial Studies
Now
let’s discuss this all types in details.
(1) British Cultural
Materialism :-
Cultural
materialism began in earnest in the 1950s with the work of F. R. Leavis,
heavily influenced by Matthew Arnold’s analyses of bourgeois culture.
Matthew Arnold
sought to redline the “givens” of British culture. To appreciate the importance
of this revision of “culture” we must situate it within the controlling myth of
social and political reality of the British Empire upon which the sun never
set, an ideology left over from the previous century. In modern Britain two
trajectories for “Culture” developed one led back to the past and the feudal
hierarchies that ordered community in the past; here, culture acted in its
sacred function as preserver of the past. Cultural materialism began in earnest
in the 1950s with the work of F.R. Leavis sought to use the educational system
to distribute literary knowledge and appreciation more widely promoted
the “great tradition “ of
Shakespeare and Milton to improve the moral sensibilities of a wider range of
readers than just the elite.
Cultural materialists also turned to the more humanized and even spiritual insights of the great students of Rabelais and Dostoevsky, Russain formalist Bakhtn, especially his amplification of the dialogic form of communal, individual and social.
Cultural materialists also turned to the more humanized and even spiritual insights of the great students of Rabelais and Dostoevsky, Russain formalist Bakhtn, especially his amplification of the dialogic form of communal, individual and social.
Culture
stand is referred to as ‘culture materialism in Britain and it. has a long
tradition .In the later ninetieth century Mathew Arnold sought to redefine the
''givens of British culture Edward Burnet Tyler’s pioneering anthropological
study primitive culture or civilization taken in widest anthropology sense is a
complete whole whose 'includes knowledge ,belief 'or morals. Law custom and any
other capacities’ and habits acquired by man as a manner of society.
(2) New Historicism :-
As a return to
historical scholarship, new historicism concerns itself with extra literary
matters– letters, diaries, films, paintings, medical treatises– looking to
reveal opposing historical tensions in a text. New historicists seek “surprising coincidences” that
may cross generic, historical, and cultural lines in borrowings of metaphor,
ceremony, or popular culture. The new historicism rejects the periodization of
history in favor of ordering history only through the interplay of forms of
power.
New Historicism
focuses on the way literature expresses-and sometimes disguises-power relations
at work in the social context in which the literature was produced, often this
involves making connections between a literary work and other kinds of texts.
Literature is often shown to “negotiate” conflicting power interests. New
historicism has made its biggest mark on literary studies of the Renaissances
and Romantic periods and has revised motions of literature as privileged,
apolitical writing. Much new historicism focuses on the marginalization of
subjects such as those identified as witches, the insane, heretics, vagabonds,
and political prisoners.
Laputa ''the
where ''what did Jonathan swift mean when he gave that name to the flying
island in the third voyage of Gulliver’s Travels? It is a question that has
political reality of the British Empire upon which the sun never set an
ideology left over from the previous century. In modern Britain two
trajectories for cultural developed one led back to the past and the feudal
hierarchies that ordered community in past hear culture acted in its sacred
function as preserver of the past.
(3) American Multiculturalism :-
As we discuss
above that this American Multiculturalism have its different four types like,
ü African
American Writers
ü Latina/o
Writers
ü American
Indian Literatures
ü Asian
American Writers
ü African American Writers :-
African American writers is widely
pursued in American literature criticism from the recovery of the eighteenth
century poets such as Phillies wealthy to the experimental novel of Toni
Morison, In Shadow and Act 1964novel Ralph Ellison Argue that any viable
theatre of Negro American culture obligates us to fashion a more adequate
theory of American culture as a what''.
ü Latina/o Writers :-
Latina/o Writer
Hispanic Mexican American, Puerto Rican Nuyarican Chicane may be Huizhou or
Maya. Which names to use/ the choice after has political implications. We will
use the term'' Latina/o to indicate a broad sense of Ethnicity among Spanish
speaking ,people n the united states Mexican American are the largest and most
influential of Latina/o Ethnicities in the united states.
ü American Indian Literatures :-
In pre
dominantly oral cultures, stalling passes and religious beliefs, moral values,
political codes and practical lesson of everyday life .For American Indians
stories are a source of strength in the face of centuries of silencing by Euro
American.
ü Asian American Writers :-
Asian
American literature is written by people of Asian descent in the United States
addressing the experience of living in a society that views them as alien.
Asian immigrants were denied citizenship as late as the1950s.Edward said has
written of Orientals, or the tendency to objectify and exoticism Asian, and
their work has sought to respond to such stereotypes Asian American writer
include Chinese Japanese , Korean Filipino, Vietnamese, Asian , Polynesian and
many other peoples of as a the Indian subcontinent , and pacific.
The idea that
American identity is vested in a commitment to core values expressed in the
American Creed and the ideals of Exceptionalism raises a fundamental concern
that has been the source of considerable debate. Can American identity be
meaningfully established by a commitment to core values and ideals among a
population that is becoming increasingly heterogeneous? Since the 1960s,
scholars and political activists, recognizing that the “melting pot” concept
fails to acknowledge that immigrant groups do not, and should not, entirely
abandon their distinct identities, embraced multiculturalism and diversity.
Racial and ethnic groups maintain many of their basic traits and cultural
attributes, while at the same time their orientations change through marriage
and interactions with other groups in society. The American Studies curriculum
serves to illustrate this shift in attitude. The curriculum, which had for
decades relied upon the “melting pot” metaphor as an organizing framework,
began to employ the alternative notion of the “American mosaic.”
Multiculturalism, in the context of the “American mosaic,” celebrates the unique cultural heritage of racial and ethnic groups, some of whom seek to preserve their native languages and lifestyles. In a sense, individuals can be Americans and at the same time claim other identities, including those based on racial and ethnic heritage, gender, and sexual preference.
Multiculturalism, in the context of the “American mosaic,” celebrates the unique cultural heritage of racial and ethnic groups, some of whom seek to preserve their native languages and lifestyles. In a sense, individuals can be Americans and at the same time claim other identities, including those based on racial and ethnic heritage, gender, and sexual preference.
(4) Postmodernism
and popular culture :-
Postmodernism and Popular
Culture brings together eleven recent essays by Angela McRobbie in a collection
which deals with the issues which have dominated cultural studies over the last
ten years.
A key theme is the notion of post modernity as a space for social change and political potential. McRobbie explores everyday life as a site of immense social and psychic complexity to which she argues that cultural studies scholars must return through ethnic and empirical work; the sound of living voices and spoken language. She also argues for feminists working in the field to continue to question the place and meaning of feminist theory in a postmodern society. In addition, she examines the new youth cultures as images of social change and signs of profound social transformation. Bringing together complex ideas about cultural studies today in a lively and accessible format.
A key theme is the notion of post modernity as a space for social change and political potential. McRobbie explores everyday life as a site of immense social and psychic complexity to which she argues that cultural studies scholars must return through ethnic and empirical work; the sound of living voices and spoken language. She also argues for feminists working in the field to continue to question the place and meaning of feminist theory in a postmodern society. In addition, she examines the new youth cultures as images of social change and signs of profound social transformation. Bringing together complex ideas about cultural studies today in a lively and accessible format.
Postmodernism
questions everything rationalist European philosophy held to be
true.Postmodernism argues that it is all contingent and that most cultural
constructions have served the function of empowering members of a dominant
social group at the expense of “others.” Popular culture: there are four main
types of popular culture analysis: production analysis, textual analysis,
audience analysis, and historical analysis.
Postmodernism like
poststructuralist and deconstruction is a critique of aesthetic of the
preceding age, but besides more critique post modernism celebrates the very act
of dismembering tradition. Postmodernism question everything rationalist
European philosophy held to true, arguing that it is all counting and that most
culture constructions have served the function of empowering member of dominant
social group at the experience of other beginning in the mid1980. Post
modernism emerged in art.
(5) Postcolonial
Studies :-
Post colonialism
refers to a historical phase undergone by the Third World countries after the
decline of colonialism. Many Third World writers focus on both colonialism and
the changes created in a postcolonial culture.
The critical nature
of postcolonial theory entails destabilizing Western ways of thinking,
therefore creating space for the subaltern or marginalized groups, to speak and
produce alternatives to dominant discourse. Often, the term post colonialism is
taken literally, to mean the period of time after colonialism. This however, is
problematic because the ‘once-colonized world’ is full of “contradictions, of
half-finished processes, of confusions, of hybridist, and liminalities” .In other
words, it is important to accept the plural nature of the word post
colonialism, as it does not simply refer to the period after the colonial era.
By some definitions, post colonialism can also be seen as a continuation of
colonialism, albeit through different or new relationships concerning power and
the control/production of knowledge. Due to these similarities, it is debated
whether to hyphenate post colonialism as to symbolize that we have fully moved
beyond colonialism.
Post-colonialist thinkers recognize that many of the assumptions which underlie the "logic" of colonialism are still active forces today. Some postcolonial theorists make the argument that studying both dominant knowledge sets and marginalized ones as binary opposites perpetuates their existence as homogenous entities. Homi K. Bhabha feels the postcolonial world should valorise spaces of mixing; spaces where truth and authenticity move aside for ambiguity. This space of hybridist, he argues, offers the most profound challenge to colonialism. Critiques that Bhabha ignores Spaak’s stated usefulness of essentialism have been put forward. Reference is made to essentialisms' potential usefulness. An organized voice provides a more powerful challenge to dominant knowledge - whether in academia or active protests.
Post-colonialist thinkers recognize that many of the assumptions which underlie the "logic" of colonialism are still active forces today. Some postcolonial theorists make the argument that studying both dominant knowledge sets and marginalized ones as binary opposites perpetuates their existence as homogenous entities. Homi K. Bhabha feels the postcolonial world should valorise spaces of mixing; spaces where truth and authenticity move aside for ambiguity. This space of hybridist, he argues, offers the most profound challenge to colonialism. Critiques that Bhabha ignores Spaak’s stated usefulness of essentialism have been put forward. Reference is made to essentialisms' potential usefulness. An organized voice provides a more powerful challenge to dominant knowledge - whether in academia or active protests.
Post colonial refer
to a historian phase undergone by third world countries after the decline of
colonialism for era, when countries in Asian Africa, Latina/o America, and the
Caribbean separated from the European emperies and were left to rebuild
themselves. Many third words write focus on both colonialism and the change
created a postcolonial culture.
v CONCLUSION:-
So,
this all are Five Types of Cultural Studies. For understand culture we have to
understand cultural studies.
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v Characteristics of Victorian age
Introduction:-
Introduction:-
The queen Victoria rules England from 1837 to 1901. This period
is considered as Victorian age in the history of english literature. It was the
age of peace and prosperity and also the age of prose and novel. The literature
of Victorian age was influenced by three different factors which are industrial
revolution, scientific inventions and political freedom.
Characteristics of Victorian age:-
(1). An age of Prose and Novel
(2). Deep Moral Not
(3). Realism
(4). Intellectual Development
(5). Search For Balance
(6). Humanitarian Approach.
Characteristics of Victorian age:-
(1). An age of Prose and Novel
(2). Deep Moral Not
(3). Realism
(4). Intellectual Development
(5). Search For Balance
(6). Humanitarian Approach.
1.)An age of Prose and
Novel:-
The Victorian
age was essentially the age of prose and novel W.J.Long in his book history of
English literature says Though the age produced many poets nevertheless this is
emphatically an age of prose and novel. (The novel in this age fill a place
which the drama held in the days of Elizabethan).
The novels were looking like the bright stars in the sky of england during the Victorian era. The great novelists like:- Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, William Thackeray, GeorgeEliot, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte filled the sky of the Victorian era with their novels.
The novels were looking like the bright stars in the sky of england during the Victorian era. The great novelists like:- Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, William Thackeray, GeorgeEliot, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte filled the sky of the Victorian era with their novels.
Some important novels are:-
Thomas Hardy:-
1). Oliver Twists
2). Hard Time
3). A Tale Of Two Cities
4). Great Expectation.
Charrlotte Bronte:-
2). Hard Time
3). A Tale Of Two Cities
4). Great Expectation.
Charrlotte Bronte:-
1). The professor.
Emily Bronte:- 1). Wuthering
Heights.
George Eliot:- 1). Middle March.
These novels are
just an ice-berg in the ocean of the Victorian novels.
2.) Deep Moral Note:-
The Victorian
literature was marked by a deep moral note. In literature this tendency is
reflected in the early poetry of Tennyson and in the novel of Charles Dickens.
Dickens novels show great respect for tradition and morality. Tennyson,
Browning, Carlyle and Ruskin were interested in spreading their message and
moral philosophy to their country men.
3.) Realism:-
The literature
of the Victorian age is literature of realism. The literature of this age is
related with the socialand political life of his age. The Victorian writers
tried to represent the problems of their own age. There for the Victorian
literature is the literature of realism rather than of romance. During this
time literature became an instrument of social reform (the literature of this
age was marked by didacticaims).
4.) Intellectual Development:-
4.) Intellectual Development:-
There was a great revolution in the scientific thoughts during this period. The well-known scientist durvin published his theory of evalution in his famous work “The origin of species”. (This book realism of ideas).
Tennyson responded
this new thought in his famous poem “In Memoriam” Mathew Arnold showed the
science of new intellectual development in his prose and poetry. This new
science created a note of passinism in many thinkers.
5.) Search For
Balance:-
During this period the
writers tried to balance the romentic as well as the classical influence. This
is well obsereved in the works of J.S.Mill during this time. The new religious
movement called the oxford movement was started. This movement shows a search
for balance.
5.) Humanitarian
Approach:-
In the novels of Charles
Dickens, J.S.Mill and certain other novelist. We came accross the humanitarian
approach. It is important to note that this age was an age of industrial revolution
this industrial revolution creates two classes:-
(1).
Labourers
(2).
Capitalists.
Some Victorian novels
deals with the class consciousness and also present the problems of poverty
during this period.
7.) Moral Purpose:-
Victorian literature in its varied aspects was marked by a deep moral note. “the second marked characteristic of the age is that literature, both in prose and poetry, seems to depart from the purely artistic standard of art’s sake and to be actuated by a definite moral purpose.” Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Ruskin were primarily interested in their message to their countrymen. They were teacher of England and were inspired by a conscious moral purpose to uplift and instruct their fellow man. Behind the fun and sentiment of Dickens, the social miniatures of Thackeray, the psychological studies of George Eliot, lay hidden a definite moral purpose to sweep away error and to bring out vividly in unmistakable terms the underlying truth of human life. We found good example in ‘The Mill on the Floss’ by Eliot. We found many of the writers write about family and morality in their literary work.
The Victorian literature seems to
deviate from “art for art’s sake” and asserts its moral purpose. Many of the
writer gives the moral message to the world.
8.) Pessimism:-
A note of pessimism,
doubt and despair runs through Victorian literature and is noticed especially
in the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Arthur Hugh Clough. Though a note of
pessimism runs through the literature of the age, it cannot be dubbed as a
literature of bleak pessimism and dark despair. A note of idealism and optimism
is also struck by poets like Browning and prose writers like Ruskin. Rabbi Ben
Ezra brings out the courageous optimism of the age. Stedman’s Victorian
Anthology is, on the whole, a most inspiring book of poetry. Great essayists
like Macaulay, Carlyle, Ruskin, and great novelists like Dickens, Thackeray and
George Eliot inspire us with their faith in humanity and uplift us by their
buoyancy and large charity.
The literature of the
age is considerably modified by the impact of science. “It is the scientific
spirit, and all that the scientific spirit implied, its certain doubt,
its care for minuteness and truth of observation, its growing interest in
social processes, and the conditions under which life is lived that is the
central fact in Victorian literature.”
The questioning
spirit in lough, the pessimism of James Thomson, the melancholy of Matthew
Arnold, the fatalism of Fitzgerald, are all the outcome of the skeptical
tendencies evoked by scientific research. Tennyson’s poetry is also
considerably influenced by the advancement of science in the age, and the
undertones of scientific researchers can be heard in ‘In Memoriam’.
9.) Patriotism:-
A note of patriotism runs through Victorian literature. Tennyson, Dickens and Disraeli are inspired by a national pride and a sense of greatness in their country’s superiority over nations. Tennyson strikes the patriotic note in the following lines
It is the land that freemen till
That sober-suited freedom chose
A land of settled government,
A land of just and old renown,
Where freedom slowly broadens down
From precedent to precedent.
That sober-suited freedom chose
A land of settled government,
A land of just and old renown,
Where freedom slowly broadens down
From precedent to precedent.
In one direction the
literature of the Victorian age achieved a salient and momentous advance over
the lecture of the Romantic Revival. The poets of the Romantic were interested
in nature, in the past, and in a lesser degree in art, but they were not
intensively interested in men and women.
To Wordsworth the
dalesmen of the lakes were a part of the scenery they moved in. He treated
human being as natural objects and divested them of the complexities and
passions of life as it is lived. The Victorian poets and novelists laid
emphasis on men and women and imparted to them the same warmth and glow which
the Romantic poets had given to nature. “The Victorian age extended to the
complexities of human life, the imaginative sensibility which its predecessor
had brought to bear on nature and history. The Victorian poets and novelists
added humanity to nature and art as the subject matter of literature.”
We can say that in the
literature the effect of patriotism. The writer focuses on national identity
and patriotism in Victorian age.We found some other minor characteristics of
Victorian age. A few literary artists of this age struck the note of revolt
against
The Materialistic tendencies of the age, and sought to seek refuge in the overcharged atmosphere of the Middle age.an escapist note is also perceptible in the Victorian literature, and this is particularly noticed in the works of the pre-Raphaelite poets. Morris busied himself in its legends and sagas. “There were some minor reversions to classicism, but taken largely, literature of the age continued to be romantic, in the novelty and variety of it’s from, in its search after undiscovered springs of truth and beauty, in its emotional and imaginative intensity.”
The Materialistic tendencies of the age, and sought to seek refuge in the overcharged atmosphere of the Middle age.an escapist note is also perceptible in the Victorian literature, and this is particularly noticed in the works of the pre-Raphaelite poets. Morris busied himself in its legends and sagas. “There were some minor reversions to classicism, but taken largely, literature of the age continued to be romantic, in the novelty and variety of it’s from, in its search after undiscovered springs of truth and beauty, in its emotional and imaginative intensity.”
Idealism is often
considered as an age of doubt and pessimism. The influence of science is felt
here. The whole age seems to be caught in the conception of man in relation to
the universe with the idea of evolution.
Though, the age is
characterized as practical and materialistic, most of the writers exalt a
purely ideal life. It is an idealistic age where the great ideals like truth,
justice, love, brotherhood, are emphasized by poets, essayists and novelists of
the age.
v MAJOR WRITERS OF THE AGE:-
1.)
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92):-
Throughout the
entire Victorian period Tennyson stood at the summit of poetry in England.
Tennyson’s life is a remarkable one in this respect, that from beginning to end
he seems to have been dominated by a single impulse, the impulse of poetry.
His work:-
o The princess,
o Dora,
o The Memoriam,
o Crossing the bar
Plays:-
o Queen Mary (1875)
o Harold (1876)
o The falcon (1879)
o The cup (1881)
o The foresters (1892)
2.) Robert Browning (1812- 1889):-
He was an English
poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic
monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Of all the poets in
our literature, no other is so completely, so consciously, so magnificently a
teacher of men. He feels his mission of faith and courage in a world of doubt
and timidity.
His
work:-
Poems:-
1. Paracelsus,
2. Pauline,
3. Men &women,
4. The
ring and the book
3.) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861):-
Among the minor
poets of the past century Elizabeth Barrett occupies perhaps the highest place
in popular favour. She was one of the most prominent English poets of the
Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both Britain and the United
States during her lifetime. Her first adult collection, The Seraphim and Other Poems was published
in 1838. She wrote prolifically between 1841-1844 producing poetry. Elizabeth’s
volume Poems (1844)
brought her great success. During this time, she met and corresponded with the
writer Robert Browning, who admired her work. She is remembered for poems
like How Do I Love Thee (Sonnet 43, 1845) and Aurora Leigh (1856). She wrote her own Homeric Epic the Battle of
Marathon: A Poem. Her first collection of poems, An Essay
on Mind, with other poems, was published in 1826 and reflected her passion for
Byron and Greek politics.
4.) Matthew Arnold (1822- 1888):-
In the world of
literature Arnold has occupied for many years an authoritative position as
critic and teacher, similar to that held by Ruskin in the world of art. He was
an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.
Arnold published his second volume of poems in 1852, Empedocles on Etna, and other poems. In 1853, he published
poems: A New Edition, a selection from two earlier volumes famously excluding Empedocles on Etna, but adding new poems, Sohrab and Rustum and The Scholar Gipsy. In 1854, Poems: Second Series appeared;
also a selection, it is included the new poem, Balder Dead. In
1867, Dover Beach depicted a nightmarish world from which the old
religious verities have receded. In his poetry, he derived not only the subject
matter of his narrative poems from various traditional or literary sources but
even much of the romantic melancholy of his earlier poems Senancour’s Obermann. Arnold, as shown it his essay on
the study of poetry regarded poetry as “a criticism of life under the
conditions fixed for such criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic
beauty”.
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5.) Charles Dickens (1812-70):-
Charles Dickens was the most
influential novelist of this age. More ever he was a social reformer. Dickens
is one of our greatest artists. A glance through even this unsatisfactory
biography gives us certain illuminating suggestions in regard to all of
Dicken’s work. First he was child, poor and lonely, longing for love and
society, second he was clerk in a lawyer’s office and in the court, third he
was reporter and afterwards as manager of various newspaper and fourth, he was
actor, always an actor in spirit.
His work:-
1.
‘The pickwick papers’
2.
‘Oliver Twist’
3.
‘A tale of two cities’
4.
‘David Copperfield’
His popularity was exploited in journalism for he edited ‘the Daily
News’. In 1858 Dickens commenced his famous series of ‘Public reading’. They
were also given in America with the greatest success.
v Conclusion:-
Thus the Victorian era was peaceful reign Englisn people made a remarkeble progress in industrial, commercial and social life. This age witnessed a variety of tendencies in literature. This age was also a period of great scientific discovers and progress. As a conclusion we can say that The Victorian Age represents the precursor of the modern era. It was, indeed a period of great achievements in all the domains, contributing essentially to the development of the British society.
Thus the Victorian era was peaceful reign Englisn people made a remarkeble progress in industrial, commercial and social life. This age witnessed a variety of tendencies in literature. This age was also a period of great scientific discovers and progress. As a conclusion we can say that The Victorian Age represents the precursor of the modern era. It was, indeed a period of great achievements in all the domains, contributing essentially to the development of the British society.
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