‘Literary Tendencies of The Victorian Age’

Name :Mahesh B. Dholiya Roll No. – 8 Part I, Semester II Year 2010 – 2011

E.g. Oliver, Nancy, Bill Sikes, Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist

Dorothea, Casaubon, etc in Middlemarch

Culture And Anarchy

Poetry of Tennyson- E.g. Tears, Idle Tears- individual belief ‘death in life’, ‘divine despair’

Browning’s My Last Duchess

The importance

Dickens: Oliver Twist (art for life’s sake with entertainment)

George Eliot: Middlemarch

Tennyson : Tears, Idle, Tears, I know not what they mean…….O death in life, the days that are no more !

Psychology of the characters

Oliver

Twist

Middlemarch

Guide: Ruchira Madam

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