Victorian literature

of the genre of literary nonsense novel, beloved by avid readers over the globe more than a century, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” was written by eminent English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll during the Victorian era. The inspiration for this fantasy fiction was a real little girl named Alice, the protagonist of the novel and Carroll invents a story related to this little girl which the title of this story ultimately immortalized as “Alice's Adventures…

has a very “hypersensitive imagination” (Westland 118), and the Victorians were “extremely sentimental” (119), but this might be explained as a result of the industrial revolution and its impact on the inner side of Dickens and his people. This is why the industrial revolution came as a turning point in the social history of England, which brought new feeling and way of thinking that began to change just by the beginning of the Victorian age. Where, the domination of Church and religion started…

work and it was hard to follow at some points. I think maybe he did this because he did not have an exact or clear idea to follow through with in the novel. He incorporates: The poachers, Dewar and Dunbar, with their cargo of pilfered eggs; Esther the observant kitchen maid, pining to be reunited wither vanished admirer; the ancient lawyer Mr. Crabbe made careless by snobbery; John Carstairs, in search of his cousin, the elusive widow; an enigmatic debt-collector, busily plotting an audacious…

immediate introduction to the colour which frames the female protagonist would have reverberated with Victorian readers as their knowledge of popular culture associated with the ‘Yellow Book’ would have been relevant and stimulating. This periodical was ‘distinctive in design and typography as well as in contents’ which was a technique used by many radical literary figures, including the authors being studied within this essay, as they all used the form of a short story. The short story was a…

The Victorian Era 5 Chapter 2. Tess, the tragedy of an unfair existence…

The term homosexuality was coined during the Victorian period in the 19th century. it is a hybrid between a Greek and a Latin word (`homo` meaning `same` `sexualis` meaning `relating to two sexes`). Before the Victorian era (1837-1901), people`s sexual orientation was considered a personal matter. There was a gradual increase in homosexuality during the period. Even though there…

Main Working Thesis: 19th Century Literature’s Depiction of the People of the Industrial Revolution 1740-1860 The Industrial Revolution was a time of agricultural growth and economical progression for the British people. There were many good changes that came about during this time that were captured forever by the literary geniuses of the time. But nothing progresses without some back-slides. Although the Industrial Revolution brought reformation to the workplace, the financial and physical…

People living in the Victorian era are often thought of as individuals who lived under the pressure of the period’s values, and this was reflected on the concern of what was ‘good’ and ‘bad’ (or in other words, ‘evil’) that was represented in the literature produced at that time. Good could be defined as ‘having in a large or adequate degree the qualities or properties desirable in something of the specified kind; of high or acceptable quality, standard, or level’, whereas evil would be ‘the…

Eyre the main character was suffering from the beginning, as she faced injustice from her aunt Mrs Reed, as well Mr Brocklehurst in school and how they treated her and called her the Satan servant. eventually, Mr Rochester her employer later. • Literature…

Among the numerous Femme Fatales of the Gothic Literature Era existed one of extraordinary power and mystery. Ayesha, known as “She,” was one of the greatest seductresses of the late Victorian Gothic period created by H.G. Haggard. With her unique beauty and charm she could put the world at her feet, but with total power comes consequence. She who must be obeyed was only as powerful as the blinding obsession she had for Kallikrates would allow her to be. Ultimately,a it is that obsession that…