Assignment 1:Literature
Victorian Age

Answer the following questions on your blog:

01. Which 2 readings did you select from the list?
The Murderers in The Rue Morgue.(Poe,E.A)
The Legend of Sleepy Hallow(Irving,w)


02. Using these readings, compare (3 examples) and contrast (3 examples) the works with the ppt presentations on Victorian Literature and Culture given in class.
-Talk about Victorian detective fiction.
- The form of entertainment involved 'spectacles' where paranormal events,such as communication with the dead ,ghost.
-Popular forms of entertainment varied by social class.
-Gothic literature combines romance and horror in attempt to thrill and terrify the reader. Possible features in a gothic novel are foreign monsters, ghosts, curses, hidden rooms and witchcraft.
-Victorian novels tend to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in the end; virtue would be rewarded and wrongdoers are suitably punished.
-Some topics like the prostitution or child labour would be consider in the literature.


03. Do you feel that the readings you completed are very good or excellent examples of Victorian Literature? Why/Why not?
Both readings are good examples of Victorian Literature,because one of them show the Revolutionary War; a period already romanticized in our collective consciousness and have dimension of mystery and intrigue by a ghostly tale set among it.
And the other one,consider Victorian detective fiction,as a distinct genre of the nineteenth century.


04. Would you recommend these readings to your friends and family? Why/Why not?
Yes,because both tales have good components that make them interesting,such as imaginary and ghostly components,and one of them for example The Murderers in The Rue Morgue is a real story.