1. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Historical Context:
Paper becomes cheap; magazines and novels cheap to mass produce
Unprecedented growth of industry and business in Britain
Unparalleled dominance of nations, economics and trade abroad

2. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Effect:
Literature begins to reach the masses

3. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Content of Literature
Conflict between those in power and the common masses or laborers and the poor
Shocking life of sweatshops and urban poor is highlighted in literature to insist on reform

4. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Content of Literature
Country versus city life
Sexual discretion (or lack of it)
Strained coincidences

5. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Content of Literature
Romantic triangles
Heroines in physical danger
Aristocratic villains
Misdirected letters
Bigamous marriages

6. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Genres/Syles:
Detective novels
Sherlock Holmes
novels becomes popular for first time, mass produced for the first time
Bildungsroman: “coming of age”
a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
Political novels
Serialized novels (A Tale of Two Cities)

7. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Genres/Syles:
Elegies a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
Poetry: easier to understand
Dramatic monologues
Drama: comedies of manners
Magazines offer stories to the masses

8. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Key Literature/Authors:
Charles Robert Darwin, 1809 –1882
an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.
On the Origins of Species
in 1879 he wrote that "I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. – I think that generally ... an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind."

9. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Key Literature/Authors
Alfred Lord Tennyson
1809 –1892
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

10. Alfred Lord Tennyson King Arthur story “The Eagle”
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

11. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Key Literature/Authors:
Robert Browning
1812 –1889
was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Robert Browning
''You called me, and I came home to your heart.''

12. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Key Literature/Authors:
Charles Dickens
1812 – 1870
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.

13. Charles Dickens’ Novels
The Pickwick Papers – 1836 Oliver Twist – 1837 Nicholas Nickleby – 1838 The Old Curiosity Shop – 1840 Barnaby Rudge – 1841 Martin Chuzzlewit – 1843
Dombey and Son – 1846 David Copperfield – 1849 Bleak House – 1852 Hard Times – 1854 Little Dorrit – 1855 A Tale of Two Cities – 1859 Great Expectations – 1860 Our Mutual Friend – 1864 The Mystery of Edwin Drood – 1870

14. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Key Literature/Authors:
Charlotte Bronte (Diacritic)
1816 - 1855
Jane Eyre, Shirley, Agnes Grey  
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.
The deaths of the Brontë siblings are almost as notable as their literary legacy. Her brother, Branwell, and Emily (Wuthering Heights) died in 1848, and Anne died the following year.

15. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Key Literature/Authors:
Mary Ann Evans, known by her
pen name George Eliot, 1819 –1880 was
an English novelist, journalist, translator
and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era
Novels
Adam Bede, 1859
The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Silas Marner, 1861
Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
Middlemarch, 1871–72
Daniel Deronda, 1876

16. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Key Literature/Authors:
Robert Louis Stevenson
was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

17. Victorian Period Years: 1832-1900 Key Literature/Authors:
Rudyard Kipling
was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Jungle Book
“If”
If you can keep your head when all about you   
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;   
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: