Posted: January 25th, 2016

Literature of the Victorian Period

Choosing ONE of the following poems or passages, place it in the context of the work from which it was taken and comment on those linguistic and thematic aspects that enable you to place it within its period.

Your task is to identify and discuss an extract (poetry or prose) from a text studied on the course, in the light of your knowledge of the period. You should pay particular attention to what is distinctively Victorian, as well as commenting in detail on matters of style and language. This differs from the kind of practical criticism exercise with which you might already be familiar. You will be practising close-reading critical skills, but in addition you are expected to place the passage in various related contexts:

place it in the context of the work from which it was taken
comment on linguistic aspects
comment on thematic aspects
place it within its period
Your critical and analytical reading of the words on the page should be informed by your knowledge of the literary and cultural history of the Victorian period and the text’s relationship to the social, political and economic history of the nineteenth century. You should approach this by thinking about how the text you have chosen to analyse may be compared with other texts on this course.

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