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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.
The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker [note 1]) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century. It was a significant stage in the development of the modern novel as a form of popular literature in Western culture.
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.
On Swadeshi movement, Second World War, Partition of India: Shahjada Darasukoh: Shyamal Gangapadhyay: 1991 Bengali: On the life of Dara Shukoh: Prothom Alo: Sunil Gangopadhyay: 1996 Bengali: On Bengal Renaissance during the second half of 19th century. Mainly on the early years of Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda.
The literary critic and sinologist Andrew H. Plaks writes that the term "classic novels" in reference to these six titles is a "neologism of twentieth-century scholarship" that seems to have come into common use under the influence of C. T. Hsia's The Classic Chinese Novel (1968).
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]
The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 is a book by the British historian Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1987.It is the third in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), preceded by The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 and The Age of Capital: 1848–1875.
A Brief History of American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781405192316. Kato, Shuichi (1997). A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times. Translated by Sanderson, Don (New Abridged ed.). Japan Library. ISBN 1-873410-48-4. Lane, Richard J. (2011). The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature. Routledge.