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Literature of the 19th century refers to world literature produced during the 19th century. The range of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) 1799 to 1900. Many of the developments in literature in this period parallel changes in the visual arts and other aspects of 19th-century culture.
In the mid 19th century, decadence came to refer to moral decay, and was attributed as the cause of the fall of great civilizations, like the Roman Empire. The decadent movement was a response to the perceived decadence within the earlier Romantic, naturalist and realist movements in France at this time. [ 52 ]
Three-volume novels began to be produced by the Edinburgh-based publisher Archibald Constable in the early 19th century. [note 2] Constable was one of the most significant publishers of the 1820s and made a success of publishing expensive, three-volume editions of the works of Walter Scott; the first was Scott's historical novel Kenilworth ...
The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. [1]
David Damrosch, Teaching World Literature (2009) Theo D'haen's co-edited collections The Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011) and World Literature: A Reader (2012). Individual studies include: Moretti, Maps, Graphs, Trees (2005) John Pizer, The Idea of World Literature (2006), Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Mapping World Literature (2008)
The 19th century saw a burgeoning of Anglo-Irish prose fiction, but literary output in Irish diminished dramatically. Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), though of English birth, spent most of her life in Ireland and wrote what is generally considered the first novel on an Irish theme, Castle Rackrent (1800), describing landlord-tenant relations on ...
Religious sentimentalism has often been considered as inspiration for François-René de Chateaubriand and his creation of Romanticism, which was another literary genre that emerged late in the eighteenth century. In popular literature, Empfindsamkeit was a common genre that continued into the nineteenth century, and was found in serialised ...
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]