VICTORIAN ERA; LITERATURE (English Subject)

VICTORIAN LITERATURE

What does VICTORIAN LITERATURE mean?
Victorian literature is the literature which was produced during Queen Victoria's reign (the Victorian era). It forms a transition between of the romantic period writers and the 20th century literature.
In the 19th century, the novel was the most used form to write in English.
Victorian novels used to write about concepts like love, luck, perseverance. Later the literature became more complex.

TECHNIQUES
Literary techniques were, for example; allusion (biblical allusions), epiphanies, pathetic fallacy, rhetoric organization and argument, the characterization, and the image and the symbol were important too.

MODES
Literary modes were children's literature, comedy, fantasy, melodrama, realism, suspense, sublimity and grotesc.

Victorian literature had got influences in contries like United States, Australia, Canada, and it was important because their novels were adapted in films or television productions.

WRITERS

The most importants writers were:

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)
He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era
He wrote: David Copperfield, The Battle of Life, Hard Times and The Adventures of Oliver Twist.

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928)
He was an English novelist and poet.
He wrote: The Poor Man and the Lady, A Pair of Blue Eyes and Return of the Native

Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833)
She was an English religious writer, Romantic and philanthropist.

John Keble (25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866)
He was an English churchman and poet, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900)
We know him with the name: Oscar Wilde
He was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
He wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Woman's world.

Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855)
He was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantig colleagues.
He worked in Gentleman's Magazine

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896)
He was an English textile desinger,artist and writer.
He wrote The Wood Beyon in the World and Kalevala.

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889)
He was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories.
He wrote The Woman in White and No Name

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865)
She was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society.
She wrote Mary Barton, The Grey Woman and Round the Sofa

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