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The problem with Victorian literature Victorian Genres The problem with Victorian literature

Facts and problems Historical considerations The importance of Queen Victoria The Victorian age A complex age The Empire

The importance of the novel The incredible variety of the Victorian novel Some of England’s greatest novelists Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Meredith, and Anthony Trollope, among others

Troubled times The absence of military conflict at home Social turmoil and the second industrial revolution A terrible spiritual revolution (Darwin and the controversial Origin of Species, 1859)

Victorian poetry Romantic influences and rejections Two great poets: Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning A new poetic subgenre: the dramatic monologue