Hebert F. Tucker: A Companion of Victorian Literature and Culture

Victorian literature

 is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) and during the era which bears her name. It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the modernist literature of the twentieth century.

Writers from the United States and the British colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada were influenced by British literature and were often classified as part of Victorian literature, although they gradually developed their own distinctive voices.

The problem with the classification of "Victorian literature" is the large difference between the early works of that period and the later works that had more in common with the writers of the Edward era, and many writers hesitate between them.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Victorian fiction outside Victoria's domains.

In the XIX century, the genre of the novel became the leading literature of England. The works of pre-Victorian writers such as Jane Austen and Walter Scott were filled with social character, as well as adventure stories. Mostly from reader publications. Books, including novels, have become ubiquitous, and "Victorian novelists" leave their legacy to the next generation.

I am the most famous writer of this era - the great Charles Dickens. It is in my works that the characteristics of Victorian England are most clearly reflected. Also in the same line with me you can put such writers as William Thackeray, Sisters Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, and later Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bernard Shaw, etc.

I was extremely popular in those days when my heroes led their own lives outside the page. The nineteenth century was marked by the emergence of numerous literary journals in which serials were placed, which were eagerly awaited and widely read.

My first real novel, The Pickwick Papers, written when I was only 25 years old. I had instant success and in all my subsequent works, they sold exceptionally well.

At that time, I, William Makepeace Thackeray, was a great rival to Dickens. With a similar style, but a bit more aloof, sharp and prickly satirical look at my characters, I also tended to portray situations of more average taste than Dickens.

I am best known for my Vanity Fair novel with the subtitle Romance Without a Hero, which is also an example of a form popular in Victorian literature: a historical novel that depicts a very recent history.

Away from big cities and the literary community, Haworth in West Yorkshire was the site of the most important novel of the era: the home of the Bronte family. We - Ann, Charlotte and Emily Bronte were able to create artistic masterpieces for their short lives, although Victorian critics did not immediately appreciate them

I am Emily and

my only work

Wuthering Heights,

which in particular has violence, passion, supernatural, heightened emotions and emotional distance, an unusual combination for any novel, but especially at this time.

This is a vivid example of Gothic romanticism from a female point of view during this period of time, in which class, myth and gender are considered.

Seeds and fruits of English poetry, Ford Madox Brown.

Victorian poetry

was also indifferent from the already stated style. Much of the work of the time is seen as a bridge between the romantic era and the modernist poetry of the next century.

I am Thomas Hardi and I are the largest English writer and poet of the late Victorian era.

My main themes of the novels are the omnipotence of destiny hostile to man, the rule of an absurd accident. My poetry is distinguished by an exceptional variety of metrics and stancics.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning conducted their novel in verse and produced many tender and passionate poems. Both Matthew Arnold and Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote poems that are somewhere between the exultation of the nature of romantic poetry and Georgian poetry of the early 20th century. However, Hopkins poetry was not published until 1918. Arnold's work did not expect some later poets, while Hopkins drew inspiration from poetic forms in Old English poetry

Lord Tennyson, poet laureate

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

Matthew Arnold

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Science, philosophy and discoveries

The discoveries of science seem to reflect considerable and particular effects upon the literature of the age. The Victorians had a mission to describe and classify the entire natural world. Much of this writing was not regarded as literature but one book, in particular, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, remains famous.