lunedì 10 giugno 2013

Victorian Age

VICTORIAN AGE 1830-1901

Main Theme
The Double

Dickens: fact vs imagination, man vs industrialisation
Stevenson: good vs evil                                                                 conflit between individual and social rules
Browning: feelings vs rationality  

Language of psychological introspection
Victorian Compromise: attention  given to responsability and not to the real needs of people. Strong hipocrisy in the upper classes