1. The Victorian Age and Victorianism It was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901 Victorianism is the name given to the attitudes, art, and culture of the later two- thirds of the 19th century. Long period of prosperity link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the literature of the 20th century

2. Victorian literature Matthew Arnold The Brontë sisters (Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë) Christina Rossetti Joseph Conrad Robert Browning Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Charles Dickens Significant Victorian novelists and poets Tends to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in the end Linear concept of time Omniscient intrusive narrator

3. Modernism Modernism is an aesthetics movements that goes from 1890 to 1930. A period characterized by: Lose faith in democracy and liberalism First World War (1914–1918) Atmosphere of tension Competition for raw materials Religious crisis due to Charles Darwin’s evolution theory Modernism represents a reaction to traditional standards Experimental literature Most relevant Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf James Joyce

4. V. Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Novels: The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob's Room (1922) Mrs Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) Orlando (1928) The Waves (1931) The Years (1937) Between the Acts (1941)

5. Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” One of the most important example of Modern fiction Plot is reduced to the minimum Simultaneus concept of time according to Einstein’s theory of relativity and Bergson’s philosophy Interior Monologue Focus on the psychology Moment of Being Narrator’s eclipse Shift of the point of view Poetical language

6. J.Joyce’s Ulysses Eclipse of the narrator Simultaneus concept of time according to Einstein’s theory of relativity and Bergson’s philosophy Focus on character’s mind Epiphany Stream Of Consciousness (There are not punctuation, syntax and logical connections. The reader has a very demand task) Mythical Method