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Brief
Lecture:
Victorian literature dominated the
reign of Queen Victoria, who was also known as the Virgin
Queen (1831-1901). Some of the aspects of the Victorian Age
in England included Puritan ideals, ornate furniture and
art, high standards of decency and respectability, prudery,
the rise of the middle class, and social problems that
resulted from industrialism.
One of my favorite works of
Victorian literature is George Eliot's Middlemarch.
This novel is about an English hamlet, Middlemarch, and the
interconnectedness of all of its residents, despite their
differences in social standing. It is a tough read and
doesn't take off until the hundredth page or so, but if you
appreciate Jane Austen and the Brontes, you will surely
enjoy Middlemarch.
Step
One: Read the textbook
assignments or the corresponding links above.
Step
Two: After completing Paper
One and Quiz 3, click the link below to review for the
Midterm which can be accessed in the Assignments folder of
Blackboard (after you email me for the midterm password).
Please check the schedule
for the midterm exam deadline.
Midterm
Review Handout
When finished with the assignments
above and the Midterm Exam, you may go on to the
Modernism
Lecture.
excerpt from "Mariana"
by
Alfred Lord Tennyson
With blackest moss the
flower-plots
Were thickly crusted, one
and all:
The rusted nails fell
from the knots
That held the pear to the
gable-wall.
The broken sheds
look’d sad and strange:
Unlifted was the clinking
latch;
Weeded and worn the
ancient thatch
Upon the lonely moated
grange.
She only said, ‘My
life is dreary,
He cometh not,’ she
said;
She said, ‘I am
aweary, aweary,
I would that I were
dead!’
Her
tears fell with the dews at
even;
Her tears fell ere the
dews were dried;
She could not look on the
sweet heaven,
Either at morn or
eventide.
After the flitting of the
bats,
When thickest dark did
trance the sky,
She drew her
casement-curtain by,
And glanced athwart the
glooming flats.
She only said, ‘The
night is dreary,
He cometh not,’ she
said;
She said, ‘I am
aweary, aweary,
I would that I were
dead!’
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Mariana in the
Moated Grange
(1850-1851)
by
John Millais
"Mariana of the Moated
Grange" first appears as a character in
Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure. Much
later Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a poem about her,
and at about the same time Sir John Everett Millais
painted her. Thus the character has aroused
interest through generations.
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Created
by Becky Villarreal Austin Community College
2002
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