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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 ]
A History of European Literature: The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198732679. Gray, Richard (2011). 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 ...
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.
It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, [13] education [14] and the natural sciences. [15] 19th-century realism was in its turn a reaction to Romanticism, and for this reason it is also commonly derogatorily referred to as traditional or "bourgeois realism". [16]
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]
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 series ranges over the literary works of various epochs and civilisations, including the literature of the ancient East, ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 17th and 18th centuries (Series One), the 19th century (Series Two), and the 20th century (Series Three). Several volumes are devoted to British, Australian ...