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1. To learn the historical background: the Victorian Age—the three

   periods and its values; the influence of Industrial Revolution,

   Chartist Movement and the woman question.
2. To learn the critical realism: the definition, the

   representative writers—Dickens, his works and writing

   characteristics; Thackeray and his Vanity Fair; the Bronte

   sisters; George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss and her uniqueness;

   the transitional figure Thomas Hardy and his novels.
3. To learn the two great poets: Tennyson; Robert Browning, his

   poems and dramatic monologue.
4. To learn about the criticism of this age: M. Arnold.
5. The area of essay: Thomas Carlyle and his The History of the

   World is the Biography of Great Men. John Ruskin and his

   essays.
6. To understand the movement of Aestheticism: its definition and

   characteristics; its strongest voice Oscar Wilde.