Victorianism

18 to 19 Century

Literature Background

Focus

-Money satire
-Human rights
-aving the poor
-Protestanism
-Children literature

Main Authors

-Charles Dickens
-Thomas Hardy
-Robert Browning (1812–89)
-Alfred Tennyson (1809–92)
-The Brontë sisters
-Charles Darwin
-Hemry David Thoreau

Poetry
Gothic
Satiris

Main writen works

-Victorian novels. -Pickwick Papers
-Under the Greenwood Tree
-Great Expectations
-Wuthering Heights
-Bad Ballads
-The origin of te Spaces (evolution)
-Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours

-English became a nation of avid novel-readers.
-Theatres were disreputable.

Historical Background

Queen Victoria

Changed the Monarchy
Britain become in urban
The Crimean War
The Boer War
The British gained control of Egypt

Industrial Revolución

-The railway age
-Agricultural increase
-Feudal Society
-Children work and workers bad conditions
-Free Trade
-Competitive exports
powerful middle-class
-The Conservative and
Liberal politicians
-"Bluestockings" women movement
-The Puritan
-Writers and puritan women