Victorian writer

Nineteenth-century British author

A Victorian writer is an author who worked during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), a period of immense literary output in Britain.

The term evokes serialized novels, social reform themes, and writers like Dickens, the Brontës, and George Eliot: She specialized in Victorian writers and their depictions of poverty.

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Victorian writermodernist writer

Author embracing fragmentation, interiority

modernist · postmodernist · contemporary writer

aesthetic and formal values

Victorian writermodernist

Advocate of experimental forms

postmodernist · absurdist · James Joyce · Virginia Woolf · Samuel Beckett

cultural and moral stance

Victorian writerMarquis de Sade

Writer whose name became perversion

Henry Miller · Charles Bukowski · Jack Kerouac · Allen Ginsberg · Oscar Wilde

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