1. The British culture of
19 century
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Romanticism and Victorian period
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2. The British culture of 19th century is characterized
by two movements:
the Romantic movement at the beginning of the
century and the Victorian movement during reign
of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
3. Painting
Painting was influenced by the new mood of
change.
Mainly urban middle class had bought paintings
and paid artists and, to please them, artists painted
different subjects, such as sentimental scenes of
the countryside and paintings, which told a moral
story.
4. James Ward (1769 – 1859)
painted horses within
landscapes, very large-
scale landscapes
earned money by
painting wealthy gentry,
their favorite horses,
their favorite hunting
dogs or their children
the Levett family
8. John Linnell (1792 – 1882)
firstly painted miniature
portraits
is mainly known in
connection with paintings of
pure landscapes
some scene of typical
uneventful English landscape
works are full of true poetic
feeling and are rich and
glowing in color.
13. Samuel Palmer (1805 – 1881)
a key figure in
Romanticism in Britain
produced visionary
pastoral paintings
his greatest works
thought to be produced
in 1820-1840 years, when
he was influenced by
William Blake
24. William Blake (1757-1827)
One of the first Romantic
poets
most famous book of poems
«Songs of Innocence»
«Songs of Experience»
his work is religious or
mystical in expression and
romantic in spirit. It is full of
movement, flickering or
glaring light, medieval
symbols, and mannerist
musculature and arrangement
25. The Lake Poets
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834)
William Wordsworth
Robert Southey
(1770-1850) (1774-1843)
26. George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
the perfect image of
the romantic poet-
hero.
«Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage» in 1812
narrative poem «Don
Juan»
27. Walter Scott (1771 – 1832)
one of the most popular
novelist of the period
master of grand historical
romances
first historical novel was
«Waverley»
formed the modern
stereotype of Scottish culture
contributed to the image of a
Scottish patriot
29. Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)
the greatest novelist of
the Victorian period
the creator of some of
the world's most
memorable fictional
characters
30. Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928)
an English novelist and poet,
was highly critical of much in
Victorian society
focused more on a declining
rural society.
«Far from the Madding
Crowd»
«The Mayor of Casterbridge»,
«Jude the Obscure»
31. William Thackeray (1811 – 1863)
an English novelist
famous for his satirical
works
«Vanity Fair»
32. The Brontës
Anne (The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall)
Emily (Wuthering
Heights)
Charlotte (Jane
Eyre)
33. Music
19th century was the period when classical music began to
be recognized as an important element of culture.
In 1813 the London Philharmonic Society was
established.
In 1822 of the Royal Academy of Music was created.
A royal charter was established in 1830, which attempted
to train British musicians to the same standards as those
of the continent.
34. William Sterndale Bennett (1816 – 1875)
an English composer,
pianist, conductor
and music educator
piano music
orchestral music
vocal music
35. John Field (1782 – 1837)
the greatest Irish musical
figure of the Romantic
period
developed a highly influential
keyboard style
wrote music that calls for
characteristically expressive
and sensitive performance
rather than virtuosic bravura
is best-known primarily for
his nocturnes
36. Charles Parry (1848 – 1918)
an English composer,
teacher and historian of
music
the choral song
"Jerusalem"
the coronation anthem "I
was glad"
hymn tune "Repton"
37. With the Industrial Revolution the themes of the music of
the laboring classes began to change from rural and
agrarian life to include industrial work songs. Awareness
that older kinds of song were being abandoned interest in
collecting folk songs during the 1830s and 1840s was
renewed.
There were works of William B. Sandys' «Christmas
Carols Ancient and Modern», William Chappell «A
Collection of National English Airs» and Robert Bell's
«Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of
England».
38. Architecture
In the 19th century it was a fragmentation of
English architecture. Classical forms were used
widely, but were challenged by a series of
distinctively English revivals of other styles,
drawing chiefly on Gothic, Renaissance, vernacular
traditions and other elements.
45. Changes in thinking
The most important idea of the nineteenth century
was that everyone had the right to personal
freedom, which was the basis of capitalism.
Many of the first socialists in Britain were writers
or artists. Some of these belonged to the "Arts and
Crafts Movement", whose members turned away
from the new middle-class values, and looked to
pre-industrial handcraft and to nature for
inspiration.
46. Above all, Victorian society was self-confident.
This had been shown in the Great Exhibition in
185I. British self-confidence was built not only
upon power but also upon the rapid scientific
advances being made at the time.
