1. THE VICTORIAN NOVEL DEAN CRISTINA & ZANABONI FEDERICA 5A

2. THE VICTORIAN AGE. TRENDS PURITANISM UTILITARIANISM DARWINISM Progress Wealth Scientific approach

3. Main themes of the Victorian novel The birth of a new class: the working class Poverty The industrial system of production The clash between classes The desire to rise and the fear of falling down the social ladder The growth of towns The struggle for democracy Education and children Middle class family life

4. The reading public was predominantly middle class and in particular lower middle class. Characteristic elements in Victorian fiction: REALISM derived from the 18th century narratives The exaggeration of the tones PATHOSTHE GROTESQUE

5. Setting The Victorian novel is generally set in an anonymous city Characters they give shape to anonymous masses so that they are recognizable They are considered real Each chapter was anxiously awaited Literature becomes an object of mass consumption (of industrial production) Everything we have said applies perfectly to Charles Dickens.

6. OLIVER TWIST TITLE CHARACTERIZATION SETTING NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE THEME/S READER’S POSITION PUBLISHING AND ITS RELATION TO THE NOVEL MESSAGE STORY LINE Analysis of an extract from… Children, poverty, hypocrisy of Victorian society Dinning hall of the work house, an institution for poor people Actions and words Third person omniscient narrator, telling and showing Oliver and his companions can only eat small rations of food and they are hungry. Oliver asks for more and all are stupefied It is the name of the protagonist The reader is not free because of the narrator’s filter The creation of a tragic-comic vision of the Victorian world through irony and exaggeration It is an extract from chapter 2, published in 1837-38

7. NICHOLAS NICKLEBY TITLE CHARACTERIZATION SETTING NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE THEME/S READER’S POSITION PUBLISHING AND ITS RELATION TO THE NOVEL MESSAGE STORY LINE Analysis of an extract from… Children, poverty, education, hypocrisy of the Victorian society Dotheboys Hall, a school for boys in Yorkshire Actions, words and thoughts Third person omniscient narrator, telling and showing After breakfast the boys go to their class. Nicholas Nickleby is ready for his first teaching day. Mr Squeers shows him his modes of education It is the name of the protagonist The reader is not free because of the narrator’s filter The creation of a tragic-comic vision of the educational institutions of the Victorian period through irony and exaggeration It is from one of the early chapters, published in 1838-39

8. HARD TIMES TITLE CHARACTERIZATION SETTING NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE THEME/S READER’S POSITION PUBLISHING AND ITS RELATION TO THE NOVEL MESSAGE STORY LINE Analysis of an extract from… Industrialization, utilitarianism and poverty Coketown Narrator’s description and Bounderby’s words Third person omniscient narrator, telling and showing Mr Bounderby is described in his physical aspect, personality and his life. He is now a rich man and he is proud to be a self-made man. He is speaking with Mrs Gradgrind The reader is not totally free because of the narrator’s filter An example of self-made man who rises the social ladder, according to the Puritan ethic It is from the first book (chapter 4), published in 1854 It refers to the difficult period in which the story takes place

9. To conclude … presence of the typical themes of the Victorian Novel. themes from the ill-treatment of children to the problems of industrialization use of pathos and the grotesque. memorable characters Dickens wants to condemn the social injustices of his time