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some key features of Victorian literature
• Literary Arts and Entertainment: There was a huge increase in the availability of the novel. They are often published in serial form in magazines, then reached a wider audience than ever before.
• Literary Arts and Entertainment: There was a huge increase in the availability of the novel. They are often published in serial form in magazines, then reached a wider audience than ever before.
...• The literature was used as a tool for exploration of individual identity in the context of social conventions.
...• forms of romance and realism were popular, and sometimes coexist.
• forms of romance and realism were popular, and sometimes coexist.
...• There were no women writers: Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell in. Also there were more writers from non-privileged backgrounds, such as Charles Dickens and HG Wells.
...• Dickens became famous and highly paid novelist.
• chartism: labor movement calls for reform of parliament increased suffrage (for men) and better conditions for the poor.
• 1848: Revolution in Europe (not UK).
• 1840: "hungry forties': Irish Potato famine.
• The development of the railway system.
key steps in the Victorian Era 1850 - 1870:
• 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. Increasing wealth Britain and the British. This is a time of expansion the British Empire.
• 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. Increasing wealth Britain and the British. This is a time of expansion the British Empire ....
• Increased interest in natural science and the idea of evolution marked by the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859).
• The reforms improved conditions for working people and extended the franchise continues (1867 Reform Act)
key steps in the Victorian Era 1870 - 1901:
• Fin de siecle - "Decadence". Oscar Wilde promotes the importance of style in literature.
• Telephones, cars, movies, bicycles, and 'rational' clothing for women.
• writers such as Thomas Hardy seeking to represent a taboo area.
• 'New Woman' -. The increased political activism by women seeking a better education, voting rights and employment opportunities
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