This website is for sale! Don't miss the opportunity to make hundreds a month!

British Literature through Time

Click one of the links below to go directly to literary time period information.

• British Literature through Time
• Anglo-Saxon
• Neoclassical/Restoration
• Modern/Post-Modern
• Medieval
• Romantic
• Contemporary
• Renaissance
• Victorian

Victorian Period

Years:  1832-1900

Content:

    * conflict between those in power and the common masses of laborers and the poor  
     *shocking life of sweatshops and urban poor is highlighted in literature to insist on reform  
     * country versus city life
     * sexual discretion (or lack of it)  
     * strained coincidences
     * romantic triangles
     * heroines in physical danger
     * aristocratic villains
     * misdirected letters
     * bigamous marriages

Genres/Styles:

    *novel becomes popular for first time; mass produced for the first time
           *bildungsroman: “coming of age”
           * political novels
           * detective novels: (Sherlock Holmes)
            * serialized novels
    * elegies

    * poetry: easier to understand  
             *dramatic monologues
    * drama: comedies of manners
    * magazines offer stories to the masses
   

Effect:

   * literature begins to reach the masses

Historical Context:

    * paper becomes cheap; magazines and novels cheap to mass produce  
    * unprecedented growth of industry and business in Britain
      * unparalleled dominance of  nations, economies and trade abroad

Key Literature/Authors:

	Ask a Question: This has NOT already been asked.		Leave a Comment: Name: Are you Human? (Not a Spam Bot)
Q&A: Question: (8/24/2011) What did they were in this time period? ???? (2/1/2012)     Answer has been submitted and is awaiting approval. Question: (8/9/2011) what was there writeing styles about? ???? (2/1/2012)     Answer has been submitted and is awaiting approval. Question: (5/21/2011) what are "strained coincidences? Question: (4/15/2011) What was the main topics Answer: (5/8/2011) A focus on the everyday was apparent in the Victorian era, as opposed to the Romantic periods ideals of perfection. Nature was a big part of art and poetry. Answer: (4/22/2011) victorian novel Question: (12/5/2010) How did the American Revolution affect British Literature? Question: (10/7/2010) What social movements affacted the victorian literature? Answer: (10/8/2011) how could society affect victorian literature? Answer: (10/7/2010) Social Darwinism, Religious Socialism, Laissez-faire, labor reform, housing reform, working conditions, and many others. Look up major social events during the progressive era Question: (10/3/2010) what kind of discussions did they have with one another? Question: (3/8/2010) What is happening politically? Question: (9/23/2009) In which ways did Thomas Carlyle try to avoid another french revolution?		Comments:   No comments Yet!