The Victorian Age and Victorianism It was the

The Victorian Age and Victorianism It was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901 Long period of prosperity Victorianism is the name given to the attitudes, art, and culture of the later twothirds of the 19 th century. link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the literature of the 20 th century

Victorian literature • Linear concept of time • Omniscient intrusive narrator Tends to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in the end Significant Victorian novelists and poets • Matthew Arnold • The Brontë sisters (Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë) • Christina Rossetti • Joseph Conrad • Robert Browning • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Charles Dickens

Modernism is an aesthetics movements that goes from 1890 to 1930. A period characterized by: • Religious crisis due to Charles Darwin’s evolution theory • Competition for raw materials • Atmosphere of tension • Lose faith in democracy and liberalism • First World War (1914– 1918) • Modernism represents a reaction to traditional standards • Experimental literature Most relevant Modernist Writers: • Virginia Woolf • James Joyce

V. Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Novels: • The Voyage Out (1915) • Night and Day (1919) • Jacob's Room (1922) • Mrs Dalloway (1925) • To the Lighthouse (1927) • Orlando (1928) • The Waves (1931) • The Years (1937) • Between the Acts (1941)

Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” One of the most important example of Modern fiction • Plot is reduced to the minimum • Simultaneus concept of time according to Einstein’s theory of relativity and Bergson’s philosophy • Interior Monologue • Focus on the psychology • Moment of Being • Narrator’s eclipse • Shift of the point of view • Poetical language

J. Joyce’s Ulysses • Eclipse of the narrator • Simultaneus concept of time according to Einstein’s theory of relativity and Bergson’s philosophy • Focus on character’s mind • Epiphany • Stream Of Consciousness (There are not punctuation, syntax and logical connections. The reader has a very demand task) • Mythical Method