5: The Victorian Age
Competence aims in focus:
The aims of the studies are to enable students to:
- interpret a representative selection of texts from literary-historical periods in English literature, from the Renaissance up to the present time
- interpret literary texts and other cultural expressions from a cultural-historical and social perspective
- analyse and assess … a selection of other artistic forms of expression within English-language culture
- assess his or her own language learning in terms of established language learning goals
(Translation: udir.no)
Videos
Films from the British Library.
Listen to Oliver Twist
This full-cast adaptation tells the classic story of a young boy's adventures and mishaps in Victorian London.
Radio: Great Lives - Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, is proposed by Will Self (see chapter 7 for his short story "iAnna").
Links
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Great Lives (BBC Radio 4)
(bbc.co. uk)
Going Further
- 1857: The Year that Made Britain Great
- 1857: Quiz on the text
- Two sides of Victorian life (task 4, page 218)
- Going further - Workhouses (task 5, p. 209)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti's paintings (task 3b, p. 223)
- Rudyard Kipling and "The White Man's Burden" (task 6, p. 233)
- Wildean epigrams (task 3, p. 225)
- Going further - Walden (task 3, p. 242)
- Going further - Find a poem by Emily Dickinson (task 3, p. 248)
Links
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BBC History: Victorians
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The Victorian Web
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Transcendentalism, An American Philosophy
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Charles Dickens (British Library)
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Great Lives: Charles Dickens (BBC Radio 4)
(bbc.co. uk) -
Oliver Twist: Plot Overview
(sparknotes.com) -
Oliver Twist and the workhouse (British Library)
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Oliver Twist: a patchwork of genres (British Library)
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Robert Luis Stevenson (British Library)
(bl.uk) -
‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’: duality in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(bl.uk) -
Christina Rossetti (British Library)
(bl.uk) -
Christina Rossetti: gender and power (British Library)
(bl.uk) -
In Our Time (radio): Chrsitina Rossetti
(bbc.co. uk) -
Oscar Wilde (British Library)
(bl.uk) -
William Butler Years (National Library of Ireland)
(nli.ie) -
Walt Whitman: Biography
(poetryfoundation.org) -
Video - Poet: Walt Whitman
(video.about. com) -
Emily Dickinson: Biography
(poetryfoundation.org) -
Emily Dickinson: Animated poem (PBS)
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Mark Twain: Biography and videos
(biography.com) -
The 100 best novels: No 23 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
(theguardian.com) -
The Kate Chopin International Society
(katechopin.org) -
Questions and answers about “Désirée’s Baby”
(katechopin.org)