The document is a paper on Victorian literature submitted to MKBU's Department of English. It discusses the key characteristics of Victorian literature, including an emphasis on morality, the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution causing a revolt against religion, and major intellectual developments in science and education during this time period. The literature reflected a desire to convey moral messages to readers and expose truths about human life, as seen in works like George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. It was a time of conflict between religion and new scientific theories, as well as rapid technological change and industrialization influenced by the Industrial Revolution.

1. Name :- Niyatiben A. Pathak
Roll no:- 25
Enrolment no :- 2069108420180042
Email Id:- napathak02@gmail.com
Paper :- Vctoroian literature
submitted to :- Department Of English
MKBU
Batch :-2017-19
Characteristics of the victorian
literature ….

3. Introduction …..
•It was the time exactly comes after the
Romantic age.
•The victorian age starts with the region
of the queen victoria means from 1837.
•This age is also known as ‘THE Age Of
Compromise.’

4. Charactristic of the victorian
literature …
Characteris
tic of the
Victorian
literature
Morality
The
Revolt
Intellectual
Developm
ents The New
education
Intellectual
Revolution

5. Morality ………
• This shows that slowly
the people were losing
the free meaning of
literature and that is
why during this time
novel as well as prose
was the popular form.

6. • Tennyson browning Carlyle, Ruskin were primarily
interested in their message to their countrymen.
• behind the fun and sentiment of dickens, the social
miniature of Thackeray , The psychological studies of
George Eliot , lay hidden a definite moral purpose to
sweep away error and to bring out vividly in
unmistakable terms the underline truth of human life
• We found good example in ‘the mill on the Floss’ by
Eliot.

7. The Revolt
• During this time the
human revolution
theory was proved by
Darwin.
• So, now God was not
one of the tool to
create fear among the
people.
• So, there was a kind of
conflict between
religion and science.

8. Intellectual Developments:
• ‘On the Origin of Species’ (1859) of Darwin
shook to its foundations scientific thought.
• The first photographs were taken in the
1830s.
• The very first electric train was invented
by a German in 1879.

9. The New Education:
• The Victorians came up
with the idea that all
children should go to
school and they
checked to make sure
the schools were up to
scratch too.
• They were the first
people to ask whether
it was right to allow
children to work.

10. Industrial Revolution:
• The Industrial Revolution
rapidly gained pace during
Victoria’s reign because of
the power of steam.
Victorian engineers
developed bigger, faster
and more powerful
machines that could run
whole factories. This led to
a massive increase in the
number of factories.
• By 1870, over 1,00,000
steam engines were at work
throughout Britain.

11. Work sited
http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-era-
literature-characteristics.html
https://www.slideshare.net/Devikaba/chara
cteristics-of-the-victorian-age-46300816
https://www.shmoop.com/victorian-
literature/characteristics.html

12. Thank you ………..