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Victorian Genres

Explore the complexities of Victorian literature during Queen Victoria's reign, including the diverse range of novels by renowned authors and the troubled times they lived in. Delve into the significance of the Victorian age, the Empire, social turmoil, and the emergence of new poetic forms.

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Victorian Genres

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  1. Victorian Genres The problemwithVictorianliterature

  2. Facts and problems • Historical considerations • The importance of Queen Victoria • The Victorian age • A complex age • The Empire

  3. The importance of the novel • The incredible variety of the Victorian novel • Some of England’s greatest novelists • Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Meredith, and Anthony Trollope, among others

  4. Troubled times • The absence of military conflict at home • Social turmoil and the second industrial revolution • A terrible spiritual revolution (Darwin and the controversial Origin of Species, 1859)

  5. Victorian poetry • Romantic influences and rejections • Two great poets: Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning • A new poetic subgenre: the dramatic monologue

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