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John Ruskin, 'The King of the Golden River'. Ruskin was a talented artist and influential art critic during the Victorian era, who wrote this classic fairy tale for Euphemia 'Effie' Gray, who was twelve years old at the time. (Ruskin later married Gray, disastrously.) Published in 1851, it became an instant hit.
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The Victorian era was a golden age for fiction, says Victorian literature specialist John Sutherland, Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London.He talks us through the some of the best novels written during the Victorian period, and what they reveal about the people who wrote them.
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Jane Eyre (Paperback) by Charlotte Brontë (shelved 140 times as victorian-literature) avg rating 4.15 — 2,049,731 ratings — published 1847 Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Wuthering Heights (Paperback) by Emily Brontë (shelved 115 times as victorian-literature)
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Charlotte Riddell, ' The Open Door ' (1882). This story shares much with the sensation novel, that bestselling genre of Victorian fiction that had enjoyed huge popularity during the 1860s and 1870s. Here we have another haunted great house, with a mysterious door that just won't stay shut. Is it a ghost that keeps opening it?
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Here is our list of the 10 Victorian novels we at Interesting Literature think everyone should read - whether because they're great novels, because they tell us something important about Victorian society, because they stand as classics of the period, or (in most cases) all three. They're not arranged in any particular order (that would be.
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"The Fair Toxophilites" (lovers of archery) by William Frith. The English Victorian era, dating from about 1832 to 1901, gave birth to many of the works we now call "classic," some of the best literature ever written in English.
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English literature - Victorian, Poetry, Novels: "The modern spirit," Matthew Arnold observed in 1865, "is now awake." In 1859 Charles Darwin had published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Historians, philosophers, and scientists were all beginning to apply the idea of evolution to new areas of study of the human experience.
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Prose fiction Charles Dickens is the most famous Victorian novelist. With a focus on strong characterization, Dickens became extraordinarily popular in his day and remains one of the most popular and read authors of the world.
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Perhaps the most famous aspect of the novel is its cover art—a piercing face projected onto a dark blue night sky and lights from a cityscape—an image that is also found, in a slightly different configuration, within the text itself as a key symbol.. The work combines themes from both Gothic and Victorian literature, revolutionizing the.
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The nineteenth century is often regarded as a high point in European literature and Victorian literature, including the works of Emily and Charlotte Brontë ), Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lewis Carroll, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker.
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The Victorian era is known for its rich literary tradition, particularly in the realm of novels. This period, spanning from 1837 to 1901, saw the rise of many celebrated authors who explored various themes and genres. One prominent aspect of Victorian novels was their engagement with politics.
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collection The Victorian Era An introduction to a period of seismic social change and poetic expansion. By The Editors John Everett Millais, "Ophelia," circa 1851. Via Wikimedia Commons.
12 great historical books about the Victorian era, including a mix of historical fiction novels
Notable Victorian poets include Byron, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Browning, P. B. Shelley, William Wordsworth, etc. Byron's brooding romantic poems attracted a lot of attention in a society noted for its high regard for morality.
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The Victorian era was a golden age for fiction, says Victorian literature specialist John Sutherland, Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London.He talks us through the some of the best novels written during the Victorian period, and what they reveal about the people who wrote them.