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The problem with the classification of "Victorian literature" is the great difference between the early works of the period and the later works which had more in common with the writers of the Edwardian period and many writers straddle this divide.
Illegitimacy was a common theme in Victorian literature. "Illegitimacy was a popular subject for Victorian writers, not only because of its value as a plot device, but also because of the changing laws affecting illegitimate children and their parents which kept the topic in the public eye."
In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [2] Themes are often distinguished from premises.
While Austen steers clear of the formal moralizing common in early-19th-century literature, morality—characterized by manners, duty to society and religious seriousness—is a central theme of her works. Throughout her novels, serious reading is associated with intellectual and moral development.
Lionel Stevenson wrote that "The most explosive impact in English literature during the nineteenth century is unquestionably Thomas Carlyle's. From about 1840 onward, no author of prose or poetry was immune from his influence." George Eliot's novel Middlemarch stands as a great milestone in the realist tradition. It is a primary example of ...
The Victorian period represented the high point of the dramatic monologue in English poetry. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 's Ulysses , published in 1842, has been called the first true dramatic monologue. After Ulysses , Tennyson's most famous efforts in this vein are Tithonus , The Lotos-Eaters, and St. Simon Stylites, all from the 1842 Poems ; later ...
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Themes concerning rural labourers and their sexuality are common, and there are many ballads based on the Robin Hood legend. [9] Another common feature of ballads is repetition, sometimes of fourth lines in succeeding stanzas, as a refrain , sometimes of third and fourth lines of a stanza and sometimes of entire stanzas.