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VICTORIAN ERA by Mind Map: VICTORIAN ERA

1. IMPORTANT FACTS

1.1. Is the period between 1820 y 1914, corresponding with the Queen Victorian´s reign.

1.2. Foundation of global economy, industrial revolution and scientific advancements.

1.3. British has imperial power among the continents.

1.4. It shares some things with Romanticism

1.5. A growing number of people able to vote: men.

1.6. Progress, change and optimistm in the society.

2. MOST IMPORTANT AUTHORS

2.1. Oscar Wilde

2.1.1. He wrote poems and dramas. He has a moral aesthetic.

2.2. Charlotte and Emily Bronte

2.2.1. Novelists that veiled for woman´s rights.

2.3. Charles Dickens

2.3.1. He is one of the greatest novelists of the United Kingdom.

2.4. Rudyard Kipling

2.4.1. He was an opet and novelist that was focused on the British empire and imperialism.

2.5. Matthew Arnold

2.5.1. He was a critical essays.

2.6. Thomas Hardy

2.6.1. He promoted the naturalims movement.

2.7. Robert and Elizabeth Browning

2.7.1. Robert was one of the Victorian´s poets known by his dramatic mologues. And Elizabeth was influenced by some famous writres such as Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe.

3. LITERATURE CHARACTERISTICS

3.1. Industrialization and urbanization

3.2. Science has nothing to do with religion.

3.3. Writers write a lot of poems and essays.

3.4. Poems are replaced by novels.

3.5. Criticism of young laboring and women discrimination.

4. MOST IMPORTANT WORKS

4.1. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) by Oscar Wilde

4.2. Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens

4.3. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson

4.4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

4.5. Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.

4.6. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray