WOMEN AND VICTORIAN VALUES‚ 1837-1910 In our series Women and Victorian Values‚ 1837-1910 we offer a wide selection of materials concerning the many roles played by women in the Victorian period. During the Victorian and Edwardian periods society was underpinned by rigid moral and social values; with ideal forms of masculine and feminine behaviour. Moral respectability and domesticity were important ideologies of feminine behaviour. The ‘woman’s mission’ was that of supportive wife‚ dutiful
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part of an integrated course in English Literature‚ inclusive of M.A. in English. Only students wishing to pursue M.A. in English should take up this course. Each paper is of 100 marks out of which 80 marks will be for the End semester examination and 20 marks for the Internal Assessment. Paper I: History of English Society and Culture I (Anglo Saxon to the Restoration) The paper will identify signposts of English society and culture from the AngloSaxons period to the Restoration. The students will
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Indian literature Article Free Pass * Introduction * Related * Contributors & Bibliography Indian literature‚ writings of the Indian subcontinent‚ produced there in a variety of languages‚ including Sanskrit‚ Prākrit‚ Pāli‚ Bengali‚ Bihārī‚ Gujarati‚ Hindi‚ Kannada‚ Kashmiri‚ Malayalam‚ Oriya‚ Punjabi‚ Rajāsthānī‚ Tamil‚ Telugu‚ Urdu‚ and Sindhi. A brief treatment of Indian literature follows. For full treatment‚ see South Asian Arts: Literature. The earliest Indian literature took
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Intro to The Romantic Period At the turn of the century‚ fired by ideas of personal and political liberty and of the energy and sublimity of the natural world‚ artists and intellectuals sought to break the bonds of 18th-century convention. Although the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin had great influence‚ the French Revolution and its aftermath had the strongest impact of all. In England initial support for the Revolution was primarily utopian and idealist‚ and when the French failed
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Romantic Period Literature Characteristics: Love of Nature Love of the Common Man Neo-Classicism The Supernatural Nationalism Heroism Strange and Far-away Places Love of Nature Emotions and instinct became more important than reason. There was a glorification of “The Natural Man”‚ the “noble savage‚” and the primitive and untutored personality. Primitivism‚ meaning the thought that the simple and unsophisticated life was best‚ also grew popular. These ideas led to an interest in old
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Music in the Baroque Period Music is in everyone’s lives these days. You always see people with headphones in their ears or jamming out in their cars. Many people listen to music in the privacy of their homes‚ where they can listen to music as loud as they want and can sing along and not have anyone look at them funny. But do all these people who listen to music on a daily basis really know where it came from? A lot of people will say that Michael Jackson is the king of pop or that Elvis was the
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Romanticism Romanticism was arguably the largest artistic movement of the late 1700s. Its influence was felt across continents and through every artistic discipline into the mid-nineteenth century and many of its values and beliefs can still be seen in contemporary poetry. Literary taste began to turn from classical and neoclassical conventions. The generation of revolution and wars‚ of stress and upheaval had produced doubts on the security of the age of reason. Doubts and pessimism now challenged
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power is dangerous and hurtful. Abuse of Power is a strength or certain power given to a person that they use negatively towards another individual. Power abuse was very common and used to make another person feel negative about them self. In the Victorian Era there was a whole bunch of power abuse by the people of England. Abuse of power is commonly seen amongst rulers‚ mature individuals and individuals who own a pet and don’t take care of it. Many powers are given to us that we use as an advantage
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Postmodern literature The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily‚ for example‚ on fragmentation‚ paradox‚ questionable narrators‚ etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature. Postmodern literature‚ like postmodernism as a whole‚ is difficult to define and there is little agreement on the
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CLIT 7013 PostModernism 2012-2013 Short Written Response Topic Examine the ways in which Paul Auster’s City of Glass challenge the convention of detective genre and open up discussion of postmodern concerns. The focus of the illustration of my argument is based on ‘the authority of detective-writer’ Title Who is the detective? Name of Student: Ho Pui Chi‚ Gladys UID: 2009874088 Email: gho@spss.edu.hk Instructor: Dr. Winnie Yee Date of Submission:
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