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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2003  
         
  Article:   AN ANTI-VICTORIAN: EMILY BRONTË AND HOW "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" WAS BEGOTTEN.

Authors:  ADRIAN RADU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  1847 is a year marking the middle of the century that was to establish the Victorian age in literature, a golden period for the novel and a kind of ‘search for balance’, similar in way to the Elizabethan age with its flourishing of the drama. The mode of representation became more factual and pictorial than before, which did not necessarily mean acting on behalf of the landscape, whereas, in parallel, rendering someone’s speech did not imply that the author was to speak in behalf of those persons. This modern period which is traditionally known as ‘Victorianism’, a reflection of the thoughts and aesthetic creed of different authors, paved the way to what was to come in the twentieth century with its new creative literary schools and trends. The nineteenth century literature in England is rich and multifaceted like most of the contemporary literatures of France, Germany, or Eastern Europe and Northern America. It is a period of search for personal voices and new and independent ways of development in the works of the novelists, poets or playwrights, as well as in the general trends and doctrines of the epoch.  
         
     
         
         
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