Victorian literature

ORIAN LITERATURE Victorian literature was produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), so Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne) are bright representatives of the Victorian period because their famous novels such as “Jane Eyre” (1847, Charlotte Brontë), “Wuthering Heights” (1847, Emily Brontë), “Vilette” (1853, Charlotte Brontë), “The Professor” (1857, Charlotte Brontë), appeared during the Victorian period. Other leading novelists of the Victorian period were Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Introduction Many Victorian writers believed that their writings should illustrate social and political problems of the country and that it should also serve as a code of conduct for readers. Therefore, writers of the Victorian period dealt with topics concerning changes in society and they put emphasis on moral propriety. Victorian literature is generally four characterized by a strong sense of morality and depiction of social oppression. Dickens was one of those who felt that the Victorian society needed

other artistic ideas. (Duerksen, R. A. (1966). Shelleyan ideas in Victorian literature. The Hague: Mouton.) Realism as a word comes from Greek word “Res” which means real. Realism emerged in France during the mid- 19th centuary. (Realism (late 1800s-early 1900s). (n.d.). Retrieved March 26, 2017, from http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3753924) Honoré de Balzac was credited for creating literary realism in French literature with his description of French society in his novel La Comedie

Influences on Victorian gothic literature; religion, psychology, science and spirituality. Many great authors such as Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker indulged in the world of the supernatural with gothic novels such as Dracula and Frankenstein. However the origins of such tales and the Victorian obsession with the paranormal are not commonly explored. The gothic genre in fact dates back as far as 1765. The classic English gothic novel began with the author Horace Walpole and his novel, “The Castle

Alexander Lucero AP English 12 Yu 5.17.12 Homosexuality Portrayed in Literature: Threat To Yourself and Those Around You The Victorian era and Elizabethan era had many homophobic attributes, just as today's society does. Gothic writers of the Victorian Age played off of the fear and immorality of homosexuality and used those feelings as a basis for their novels. Bram Stoker told a story about a vampire that challenged the Victorian gender roles and managed to reverse them, making men faint like women

family in Victorian literature and culture? 

 Intro There are many elements in representations of the family in Victorian literature and culture. In this essay, through Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Dickens’ Oliver Twist, and Gaskell’s Mary Barton, I will be focusing on family in relation to how society perceives and affects the individual in the family, how and whether a family is formed through blood relation or situation, In the mid-Victorian era, novelists were prone to use their literature as a method

no lunatic man, I'm a sane man fighting for his soul" this quote from Bram Stoker’s- Dracula, illustrates and foreshadows that in the Victorian era, a quest for meaning was seen by the majority of society as ‘lunacy’, however the characters that Stoker uses, are represented ‘sane’, suggesting Stoker’s encouragement of a quest for meaning and purpose in the Victorian era of increasing uncertainty. Along with Stoker, Charles Dickens and Lord Alfred Tennyson also address the individual’s pursuit for

The existence of a “dark double” abounds in many literary works of the Victorian Era. These “dark doubles” are able to explore the forbidden and repressed desires of the protagonist, and often represent the authors own rebellion against inhibitions in a morally straight-laced societal climate. The “dark doubles” in these stories are able to explore the socially unacceptable side of human nature, and it is through these “dark doubles” that many of the main characters (and through them

Victorian Gothic Literature: Scientific vs. Medieval Thinking        Creatures of the night have always held a fascination and horror for people in all cultures. The English fascination with sensational and gothic literature came to a peak, after slacking slightly following the Romantic period, in the late Victorian period with such works as Dracula, The Strange Adventures of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The literate populace avidly devoured this type of literature

genders or races, the race and revolutions of countries in becoming a democracy and the uprising of societies against constricting governments. However during the Victorian Era, a structured hierarchical environment was not only accepted but was considered to be of the upmost importance in society’s continuous survival. Victorian Literature allows readers to gain a critical insight into the class and social hierarchy of the era, by outlining the extensive amount of guidelines and restrictions applicable