Victorian literature
Dickensian-era writing
Victorian literature refers to English writing produced during Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901), an era of rapid industrialization, imperial expansion, and social reform.
The period spans novels by Dickens, Eliot, and the Brontës, poetry by Tennyson and Browning, and essays by Carlyle and Ruskin.
Victorian literature often grapples with class, morality, and the tensions between tradition and progress: Her dissertation focuses on gender in Victorian literature.
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- serialized fictionStory released incrementally
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- novelNew and unusual
- BildungsromanNovel of formative years
Charles Dickens · Emily Brontë · Oscar Wilde · workhouse conditions · drama · dramatic monologue · realist novel · Industrial Revolution · suffragette movement · drawing room · sensation · social justice · George Eliot · satire · class struggles · serialized · Robert Browning · British Empire
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- translationtranslator, literal translation, literary translation, free translation, French translation
- English Studiesliterary theory, literary history, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer
- literary heritageShakespeare, Homer, Dante, Tolstoy, Dickens
- literary periodsRenaissance, medieval, modern, contemporary, ancient
Victorian literaturemodernist literature
Experimental early-twentieth-century writing
postmodern literature · contemporary literature · medieval literature · ancient literature · experimental fiction
Victorian literatureerotica
Arousing creative works
naturalism · confessional poetry · Henry Miller · D.H. Lawrence
Victorian literaturestream of consciousness
Narrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
flash fiction · experimental fiction · metafiction · James Joyce · Virginia Woolf