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Grade 11 EnglishUniversity Prep
  • The Victorian Novel

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Victorian Novels
  • Victorian novels (written in English in the 1800s
    when Queen Victoria ruled) are
  • Very long
  • Mostly made up of conversations and/or letters,
    rather than events occurring
  • Filled with people of three classes (nobility,
    middle class and lower/poor class) who arent to
    mix, socialize or date
  • Dark and brooding, full of disease, poverty and
    death
  • As eloquently, formally and fancily written as
    possible
  • Usually spiced up by a hidden secret, usually
    involving long-lost twins, amnesia, insanity, out
    of wedlock pregnancy, crime, secret marriages,
    bastard children, lost fortunes, monsters,
    ghosts, pirates, exiles returned from prison or
    Australia and nasty workhouses, orphanages or
    factories.

Actually by Charlotte Brontes sister Emily
Actually by Charles Dickens
Actually by Charles Dickens
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Victorian Novels
  • Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
  • A series of letters and conversations reveal, all
    in flashback, that a man secretly made a monster,
    and its been murdering people and brooding over
    its fate, destiny and possible happiness. Things
    dont go well, and the monster kills itself in a
    fire.

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Victorian Novels
  • Bram Stokers Dracula
  • A series of letters and conversations reveal,
    mostly in flashback, that a man is secretly a
    monster, and has been murdering people and must
    be killed. With all the people dying of
    consumption, whos going to notice two little
    holes in someones neck?

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Victorian Novels
  • Robert Louis Stevensons The Strange Case of
    Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • A series of letters and conversations reveal,
    mostly in flashback, that a man has secretly
    accidentally turned himself into a monster, which
    has been murdering people and must be killed.

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Victorian Novels
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes novels
    and short stories
  • With a great deal of focus upon conversations and
    letters, a detective uncovers the facts about
    secret marriages, pregnancies, thefts, orphans,
    identical twins, brothers returned from
    Australia, lunatics, amnesiacs, fires and etc.

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Victorian Novels
  • H.G. Wells The Time Machine
  • In this work of Victorian speculative fiction,
    the story is told (in conversation, in flashback,
    by two narrators) of a man who makes a time
    machine and travels through time. In the future,
    society has divided into a frail, helpless upper
    caste, and a bunch of lower caste monsters who
    devolved from the proletariat, working class
    people.

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Victorian Novels
  • Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
  • A poor orphan escapes a workhouse only to fall
    into the clutches of a criminal who keeps a gang
    of child pickpockets, but Oliver wont turn to
    crime. Executions, secrets and murders abound.

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Victorian Novels
  • Charles Dickens David Copperfield
  • A half-orphaned boy is abused by his horrible
    step-father, gets sent to a boarding school, must
    work in a nasty factory and tries to live his
    life. Executions, secrets, crime and murders
    abound. People go to Australia.

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Victorian Novels
  • Charles Dickens Great Expectations
  • An orphan meets a criminal who later is sent to
    Australia and helps him escape his manacles. The
    orphan lives with his abusive sister until she is
    beaten and becomes a brain-damaged invalid, and
    he loves a girl who lives with a crazy, cruel,
    abusive old shut-in lady. There is darkness,
    cruelty, people sent to jail and Australia, and
    old ladies being lit on fire.

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Victorian Story
  • Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
  • A cruel, stingy man (Ebenezer Scrooge) who does
    not help poor people and crippled children is
    visited by ghosts who convince him hes a bit of
    a monster and frighten him into becoming more
    Christmassy.

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Womens Books
  • In a stereotypical chick flick or womans book,
    (e.g. Bridget Jones Diary) the heroine must
    choose between two men. The exciting one is
    usually a jerk. The nice one is boring. How to
    choose?
  • The traditional solution is to tame or reform
    the exciting jerk. Note this works less well in
    real life. Read Cosmo.

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Victorian Novels
  • Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights
  • On the blasted, windy, rainy moors, a poor gypsy
    man who is an exciting jerk and a woman who is
    out of his social reach are passionately in love.
    There is also a nice, kind, boring man who loves
    her who she is supposed to marry. The gypsy
    jerk(Heathcliffe) is shattered by this and storms
    out and carries on. She married the boring guy.
    Eventually she gets sick and dies, and the
    exciting boor ends up wailing and crying and
    trying to dig up the corpse of his deceased love.
    Then he becomes a cruel idiot and angrily and
    cruelly raises his sickly, bastard son who he
    hates, and torments the daughter of his dead
    love. Eventually, when the daughter is in love
    with someone he doesnt approve of, he goes
    insane, sees the ghost of his dead love, and
    dies. The end.

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Victorian Novels
  • Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre
  • An orphan girl who wont do what shes told or
    defer to her betters survives the most horrible
    foster parenting (a horribly cruel old invalid
    lady) and boarding school, manages not to die of
    consumption, has two men to choose from (one
    boring, religious and nice, and the other an
    angry jerk). There are secrets, lost fortunes,
    foster children, angst, poverty and fires.

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