Victorian Period 1832-1901
Victorian Period was named for Queen Victoria, who reigned England from 1837-1901. It was a period of growth, change, and domestic reform lives of working-class, improved Reform Bill of 1832.
Victorian Period Features are,
-Serialization. It can be daunting to pick up a Victorian novel.
-Industrialization. Okay, so “industrialization” might sound more like economic development than literary history.
-Class. The Victorians were super status conscious.
-Science vs. Religion.
-Progress.
-Nostalgia.
-The Woman Question.
-Utilitarianism
Alfred Tennyson
--- was a British poet, was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu, Ulysses"
the writing style uses “simple and plain style”
Matthew Arnold
--- was an English poet and cultural critic, "Dover Beach" "Thyrsis", Culture and Anarchy,
the writing style uses “classical attacks on the contemporary tastes and manners of the “Barbarians” (the aristocracy)”
Charles Dickens
--- was a British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social commentator, beloved classic novels as " Oliver Twist, A Christmas
Carol, , David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.
the writing style uses “ exaggeration in description to imply character traits, fond of metaphor, simile ”
Emily Jane Brontë
--- was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights", now considered a classic of English literature.
the writing style uses “romantic poetic style”
George Eliot
--- was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator "Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) "Adam Bede"
the writing style uses “a well-rounded human perspective”
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