nineteenth-century literature
Dickens-era written works
Nineteenth-century literature refers to literary works produced during the 1800s, a period spanning Romanticism, Victorian fiction, and early realism.
The term typically appears in academic and educational contexts: She specialized in nineteenth-century literature, a course on nineteenth-century literature.
The hyphen appears when the phrase modifies a noun.
- serialized fictionStory released incrementally
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- RealismMovement depicting ordinary life
- Jane AustenRegency-era English novelist
- moral taleStory conveying ethical instruction
Charles Dickens · Leo Tolstoy · Fyodor Dostoevsky · Industrial Revolution · steam age · Oscar Wilde · Nathaniel Hawthorne · Walt Whitman · Transcendentalism · drawing room · Victor Hugo · Edgar Allan Poe · Emily Brontë · penny dreadful · Symbolism · Henrik Ibsen · Brontë sisters · Bildungsroman
nineteenth-century literaturecontemporary literature
Recent era's published works
modern literature · postmodern literature · ancient literature · medieval literature · classical literature
nineteenth-century literaturemodernist fiction
Experimental early 20th-century prose
experimental fiction · metafiction · fragmented narrative · magical realism · cyberpunk
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Culture passed by speech
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