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THE VICTORIAN AGE – AN AGE OF DOUBT
THE VICTORIAN AGE – AN AGE OF DOUBT

Author(s): Valentina Stînga
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: doubt; natural selection; variation; survival of the fittest.

Summary/Abstract: In the history of English culture and civilization, the Victorian Era is conventionally described as a period of prosperity, progress and reform. In spite of all the positive features of this particular cultural paradigm, remark should be made that it simultaneously favoured the emergence of doubt as the fundamental lens of filtering reality. Starting from Darwin‟s Theory of Evolution, which challenges the conventional way of religious thinking, rejecting the explanation that the human being was created by a higher power, the idea had devastating consequences on the consciousness of most Victorians. The present paper is intended to comment on the Victorian Age from the viewpoint of its relation to doubt. The paper also focuses on the particular aspects of doubt in A. Tennyson‟s poetry (In Memoriam).

  • Issue Year: 2/2014
  • Issue No: XV
  • Page Range: 79-87
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English