This document provides background information on the Victorian Age in England from 1830 to 1890. It summarizes that this was an era of peace and prosperity under Queen Victoria. The social climate was shaped by morality and new intellectual developments, while literature flourished in genres like poetry, novels, short stories and essays. Major authors of the Victorian period included Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte and Alfred Tennyson. The document outlines some of the key developments and works within major literary genres during this time.

1. Background of
Victorian age
Name: Saryu D. Baraiya
Subject: The Victorian Literature (Paper-V)
Roll No: 27
Study: M.A.
Year: Semester – II
Submitted to: Department of English
University: Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. Background of Victorian Age
Brief Introduction of Victorian Age:
 Started in: 1830
 It was the era of Queen Victoria.
 A long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and
national self-confidence for Britain.
 Political situation was divided between two parties: Whigs &
Tories.
 It also plays vital role in history and literature of Victorian Era.
 Ended in: 1890

3. Background of Victorian Age
Victorian
Age
Social
Background
Political
Background
Literary
Background

4. Background of Victorian Age
 Morality
 The Revolt
 Intellectual Developments
 The New Education
 International Influence
 The Achievement of the Age

5. Background of Victorian Age
Development of Poetry:
 Very large and varied lyrical output.
 Fresh work of literature.
 Greater advance to chronicle in Narrative and Descriptive poetry.
 Great variety of subject and periods.
 The Pre-Raphaelite school, united several features.
 Descriptive side of poetry is very strong in Victorian Age.
 Fondness for medieval things.
 Melodious simplicity of poetry.
 Poets of Victorian Era.

6. Background of Victorian Age
Lord Tennyson Ulysses
In
Memoriam
Robert
Browning
Ring and the
Book
Men and
Women
William Morris
The Earthly
Paradise
The Roots of
the
Mauntains

7. Background of Victorian Age
Development of Prose:
 Video on NOVEL’s development.
 By the middle of the 19th century, the novel, fixes it self as a form of literature.
 New form of literature.
 Accepted widely in society and specially because of women.
 The historical novels were also written.
 The development of SHORT STORY as different form of literature.
 ESSAY was the expansion of the literary type into the treatise-in-little.
 Essay was mostly developed because of Macaulay.
 The LECTURE becomes a prominent literary species for Victorian time.
 The HISTORIANS are strongly represented and specially for their work in prose.

8. Background of Victorian AgeCharlesDickens
• The Pickwick
Papers (1836)
• Oliver Twist
(1837)
W.P.Thackeray
• The
Memories of
Barry Lyndon
(1844)
• Vanity Fair
(1847-48)
GeorgeEliot
• The Mill on
the Floss
(1860)
• The
Middlemarch
(1871-27)

9. Background of Victorian Age
Development of Drama:
 It was the only genre, which developed less in comparison of other genres.
 Several of the major poets wrote tragedy on the accepted line and models.
 Reviving of POETICAL DRAMA.
 The popularity of the dramatic monologue.
 Lord Tennyson:
Queen Mary (1875)
Harold (1876)
Becket (1884)

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