UK literature 19thand 20thcentury Victorian era – realism – the 2ndhalf of the 19thh century prosperity and peace, technical development but also poor working conditions and long working hours,child labor (factories, chimney, sweeps), poverty literature ohero– represents values of society omain genre - novelcriticizing various evils of prosperous but imperialistic society and describing the real life of poor people in England ochanged into realistic - reflects real working and social conditions -> realism/ critical realism owork with different perspectives – low and high social classes low – informal language, grammatically incorrect high – high elevated language olanguage – typical for certain social class owork is written with 3rd person singular -> authors wanted to be objective oinspiration – the area where authors lived realism – critical, naturalism The Bronte sisters very talented, published under male names, protested against everything inhuman and cruel lived in isolated village in Yorkshire they had an amazing imagination and fantasy Emily Brontë othe only novelWuthering Heights– more romantic novel with realistic elements, goes deeper to characters passionate and mystery world Charlotte Brontë orealistic novelJane Eyre– based on her own experience,realistic novel with romantic elements (castle, social criticism, orphans) Jane Eyer and Mr. Rochester Charles Dickens (1812–1870,Victorian Era) a novelist, journalist, well respected and popular author considered to be the greatest writer of Victorian era journalist -> his writings were originally published serially in newspapers (he was a journalist) work - partly autobiographic topics: social injustice– describes truly the life of poor people in England in the 19thcentury, criticism of living conditions in Victorian England Life ohe was very poor as a kid, his father became a debtor (dlužník) and he was imprisoned -> family was very poor so Charles had to help through working and earning money oCharles was then send to workhouses and had to work in a shoe-polishing factory oafter he married, he had a big family, so he wrote a lot, even more than one book at the time oburied in Westminster Abbey His work ofirst work –The Pickwick Papers– a humorous novel oOliver Twist his masterpiece novel– criticized various differences between social classes and that they don´t care about people (children) who basically don´t have anything The Plot- a poor orphan(sirotek), comes to London and becomes a chimney sweeper (very common job for children), then a member of a gang of pickpockets. They turn him into thief. They have several adventures until all the gang members are
arrested and Oliver comes to live with Mr. Brownlow who adopts him -> he finally lives in a family.
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