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Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). The 19th century is considered by some the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. [ 1 ]
English language novels from the 19th-century Victorian era. Subcategories. This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total. ...
Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era--that is the 1837-1901 reign of Queen Victoria. The idea of "reform" was a motivating force, as seen in the political activity of religious groups and the newly formed labour unions.
The Way of All Flesh (originally titled Ernest Pontifex or the Way of All Flesh) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. [1] Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family.
Well, say experts, in the United States it's about a swirling blizzard of nostalgia, music, popular literature, the rise of Victorian mass culture ‒ and, surprisingly, the Little Ice Age. It all ...
Art and Literature in Britain 1760–1900 (1985) Deadly Encounters: Two Victorian Sensations (1986) also as Evil Encounters (UK) Writers, Readers and Occasions: Selected Essays on Victorian Literature and Life (1989) Of a Place and a Time: Remembering Lancaster (1991) The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel (1991)
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life was the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in 1848.The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian working class.
First edition (publ. Longman & Co.) Montezuma's Daughter, first published in 1892, is a novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. [1] Narrated in the first person by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered by his Spanish cousin Juan de Garcia, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery.