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

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

3 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

4 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)

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

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