Victorian novels
Serialized moral epics
Victorian novels are works of fiction from the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), a period when the novel became England's dominant literary form.
The term evokes long, serialized narratives with intricate plots, social commentary, and moral concerns—Dickens, Eliot, the Brontës.
She's working through the Victorian novels she never read in college.
Something described as a Victorian novel may simply be very long or densely plotted.
- George EliotPseudonymous Victorian novelist
- fogLow-lying cloud cover
- Thomas HardyVictorian novelist and poet
- letterWritten symbol or message
- bildungsromanFiction of psychological maturation
Charles Dickens · realism · morality · fallen woman · marriage plot · serialization · Industrial Revolution · social critique · Oscar Wilde · drawing room · country estate · child labor · melodrama · penny dreadful · suffrage movement · symbolism · poverty · British Empire
- British novel historyEdwardian era, modernist literature, romanticism, realism, Jane Austen
- Victorian literatureDickens, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Eliot, Thomas Hardy
- Victorian WomenFlorence Nightingale, Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Victorian booksfirst editions, triple-deckers, penny dreadfuls, serialized fiction, lending libraries
- bourgeois fictionbourgeoisie, bourgeois values, social realism, class distinctions, middle class
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
Victorian novelsmodernist novels
Experimental early-1900s literary works
postmodern fiction · contemporary fiction · medieval romances · ancient epics · experimental fiction
Victorian novelsflash fiction
Ultra-short story genre
microfiction · short stories · haiku · short shorts · spare prose