Indice generale
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5.5.1 The Evolution of the Gothic Novel: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797-1851)
292
5.5.2 The Historical Novel: Walter Scott (1771-1832)
293
5.5.3 The Novel of Manners: Jane Austen (1775-1817)
296
5.6 Romantic Drama and Prose Writing
298
5.6.1 Romantic Drama
298
5.6.2 Romantic Prose Writing
300
Chapter Six
The Victorian Age
6.1 Queen Victoria’s Reign (1832-1901)
303
6.1.1 Historical and Social Background
303
6.1.2 Cultural and Literary Background
306
6.2 The High Victorian Novel
310
6.2.1 Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
310
6.2.2 William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
313
6.2.3 Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
315
6.2.4 The Brontë Sisters
316
6.2.5 The Fiction of Crime, Mystery and the Supernatural
320
6.2.6 George Eliot (1819-1880)
321
6.3 The Late Victorian Novel
323
6.3.1 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
323
6.3.2 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
326
6.3.3 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
327
6.3.4 The Fiction of Mystery, Supernatural and Crime
328
6.4 Victorian Poetry
331
6.4.1 Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
331
6.4.2 Robert Browning (1812-1889)
333
6.4.3 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
335
6.4.4 Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
336
6.4.5 Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
337
6.5 From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Aesthetic Movement
338
6.5.1 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
338
6.5.2 Aestheticism and Decadence
341
6.5.3 Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
342
6.5.4 Walter Pater (1839-1894)
343
6.5.5 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
344
6.6 Victorian Drama and Prose Writing
346
6.6.1 Victorian Drama: an Overview
346
6.6.2 Oscar Wilde and the Plays of Manners
347
6.6.3 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and the Plays of Ideas
349
6.6.4 Victorian Prose Writing
352
Chapter Seven
Modern Times
7.1 The First Half of the 20th Century (1901-1945)
355
7.1.1 Historical and Social Background
355
7.1.2 Cultural and Literary Background
358
7.2 The Novel of Transition: from Tradition to Early Modernism
361
7.2.1 Henry James (1843-1916)
361
7.2.2 Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
363
