The Victorian age is named after Queen Victoria who ruled from 1837 to 1901. It was a time of both progress and unrest, characterized by prose writing, a moral purpose in literature, new systems of education, and material development alongside social revolts. The literature of this era sought compromise between conflicting ideologies such as democracy and aristocracy, religion and science, and old and new ways of working.

1. ● Name: Malek Hinaben Ibrahimbhai
● Paper no. : 6 The Victorian literature
● Roll no. : 7
● Batch: 2019-21
● Email Id: hinamalek21@gmail.com
● Class: MA Sem 2
● Topic: The characteristics of the Victorian age
● Enrollment no. : 2069 1084 2020 0026
● Submitted by: SMT. S. B. Gardi Department of
English

2. The Victorian age
● The Victorian named after
Victoria, who became a Queen in
1837 at age of 18 and rules of 68
years until her death in 1901.
● Very good Monarch at a time.
● Limited amount of power in
comparison to monarches.
● It is hierarchy based social order
of that period

3. The Victorian Age
● The duration of Queen Victoria's reign is known as the
Victorian Age or of the age of Tennyson or as some critics
believe age of Charles Dickens.
● Time period: 1850-1900
● According to W. H. Hudson considers the period is 1837-
1901.
● The age of doubts, disputes, realism and romance,
materialism and spiritualism,peace and unrest, religion and
science.
● The age of prose especially Novel.
● known as the modern period of Progress and unrest.

4. Wordsworth had written, in 1835,
Like clouds that rake the mountain summits,
Or waves that own no cubring hand,
How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!

5. Characteristics of The Victorian age
1. An age of prose
2. Moral purpose
3. Idealism
4. New Education
5. An era of peace
6. Material Devlopment
7. The revolt
8. International influences
9. An age of compromise

6. An age of prose
● It is known as age of prose.
● Though the age has produced many poet, who
deserves to rank among the greatest.
● This emphatically an age of prose.
● There are some prose writers in this age, John Ruskin,
Carlyle, Macaulay, Matthew Arnold.

7. Moral purpose
● This is a key note of Victorian literature.
● Prose and poetry seems to be standard of ‘Art for
for sake’ by definite Tennyson.
● Browning Carlyle not only masters of literature but
also teachers of England.
● So, this reason through it is known as age of realism
rather than romance.

8. Idealism
● Age of doubts and pessimism following the new concept of
man of universe.
● Lacked in great ideas.
● Judging a large thing that may be challenged when we
closely study this.
● May be we not agree with this judgement. This litreture has
idealism as William j. Long remarks
“The litreture which expresses our faith in man may judge the Victorian age to
be on the whole the noblest and most inspiring the history of the world.”

9. New Education
● It is making a certain measure of education, rapidly
produced an enormous reading public.
● A large number of reading people waiting for new
novels.
● The cheapening of printing and proper increased the
demand for books as a result form of literature was
novel and the novelists with a will much of their works
was a higher standard.

10. An Era of prose
● Age of comparative peace.
● Great reform bill occupied attention expresses the
ideas of the liberals of his day.
● Who proposed to spread the gospel of peace.
● The new colonial that broke out during the Victorian
approach did not seriously distuy the national life.

11. Material Devlopment
● It was the age with new activity.
● There was a revolution in commercial enterprise, due
to the great increase of available markets and as a
result of this an immense advance in use of mechanical
contries.
● Victorian Era also became as the age of machine.

12. The Revolt
● Many writers protested against the feeding affects of the
conventions Carlyle and Matthew Arnold in their diffent
accents were Loudon their denunciation, Thackeray never
tried of satirizing the snobbishness of the age and Browning'
cobby mannerisms were an indirect challenge of the velvety
diction and the smooth self-satisfaction of the Tennyson
school.

13. International Influences
● During the 19th century the instrument among American
and European writers were remarkably fresh and strong.
● In Britain the instrument of great German writers
championed by Carlyle and Matthew Arnold.
● Subject nations in Italian were a sympathetic them for prose
and verse.
● Some writers were deeply absorbed in the long struggle of
the Garibaldi and Cavour and when Italian freedom was
gained and the rejoicing was genuine.

14. An age of compromise
● The Victorian age is called an age of compromise as well.
● It is sought a happy compromise controversial ideology.
● It was particularly perceptible in three branches of life, 1.
There was compromise between democracy and aristocracy
2) Religion and science 3) New machinaries and old system
of working.
● The advance made by science was acceptable but the claim
of religion could not be ignored.

15. ● References
● Long, william joseph. Victorian age. Public domain in the USA: A.I.T.B.S., Jan
1, 2004.