History of Victorian Age(1832-1887)Prepared By

Vaishali JasoliyaNidhi Jasani (Sem-2)

Queen Victoria and theVictorian Temper

• Ruled England from 1837-1901

• The Victorian period was an age of transition

• Exemplifies Victorian qualities:

earnestness, moral

responsibility, domestic

propriety

The Reform Bill of 1832

• Transformed English class structure

• Extended the right to vote to all males owning property

• Second Reform Bill passed in 1867

• Extended the right to vote to working class

Major Events of the Victorian Era

• A huge growth in population.

• Improvements in technology.

• Changing world views.

• Poor conditions for the working class.

Literary characteristics

(1). Prose and novel

• Prose and Novel is more popular than the other forms in Victorian Literature.

(2). Moral Purpose

• Moral purpose is more important than esthetic delight in Victorian literature.

(3). Literature of Realism

• In Victorian Literature we found realism rather than Romance.

• Real Character

(4). Pessimism

• Pessimism, despair runs through Victorian Literature and is noticed especially in the poetry of Matthew Arnold.

(5). Patriotism

• Patriotism runs through Victorian Literature. Tennyson, Dickens and Disraeli are inspired by a national pride and a sense of greatness in their country’s superiority over other nations.

Victorian Compromise

• Compromise between the Rich and the Poor

• Compromise between Royalism and Democracy

• Compromise between Science and Religion

Victorianism means an attitude to life and things.

Major Poetry Writers of the Victorian Age

• Alfred Tennyson

• Robert Browning

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Matthew Arnold

• Christina Rossetti

• D. G. Rossetti

• William Morris

Alfred Tennyson(1809-92)

• Timbuctoo

• In Memoriam ( Elegy)

• Ulysses

• The Princess

• The Lady of Shallot and O Enone

• The Lotos Eaters

• The Palace of Art

• Tears, Idle Tears

• Dora

• Two Brother

Robert Browning(1812-89)

• Pauline

• Asolando (1889)

• My Last Duches

• The Last Ride Together

• Holy Cross Day

• A Grammarian’s Funeral

• Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)

• Sordello

• The Heretic’s Tragedy

• The Statue and Bust

• Pippa Passess

Elizabeth Browning(1806-61)

• The Cry of the Children (1843)

• Case Guidi Windows (1851)

• Poem Before Congress (1860)

• Aurora Leigh

• Lady Geraldine’s Courtship

• Sonnets From the Portugese

• Cowper’s Grave

• Seraphim (1833) and poems

Cristina Rossetti(1830-1894)

• Goblin Market (1862)

• The City of Dreadful Night

• The Prince’s Progress (1866)

• The Germ (1850)

• A pageant and other poems (1881)

• New Poems (1896)

• Time Flies (1885)

• Verses (1893)

• Sing Song (1894)

• From House to Home

Matthew Arnold & William Morris (1822-1888) (1834-1896)

• The Scholar Gipsy

• Thyrsis

• The Stayed Reveller

• Last Essay on Church and Religion (1877)

• Essays: in Criticism

• Literature and Dogma

• On Translating Homer (1861)

• The Defernce of Guenevere (1858)

• The Life and Death of Jason (1867)

• The March of the Worker • The Dream of John Ball• All For the Cause• Sigurd the Volsung

• Chant for Socialist (1855)

Major Prose Writer of age

• Thomas Carlyle

• John Ruskin

• Thomas Babington

• Walter Horatio

• Oscar Wilde

Thomas Carlyle & Oscar Wilde(1795-1881) (1854-1900)

• Sartor Resartus(1833-34)

• The French Revolution (1838)

• Heroes and Hero-worship (1841)

• Past and Present (1843)

• Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches

• The Life of Sterling(1851)

• History of Fredrick the Great (1858-65)

• The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

• De profundis

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

• A Woman of No Importance and

• The Importance of Being Ernest (1899)

John Ruskin(1819-1900)

• Modern Painters (1843-60)

• Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)

• The Stones of Venice (1851-53)

• Unto This Last (1860-62)

• Munera Pulveris (1862-63)

• Time and Tide (1867)

• The Crown of Wild Olive (1866)

• Sesame and Lilies (1862)

• Praeterita (1885-89)

Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)

• Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)

• Far From the Madding Crowd(1874)

• The return of the Native (1878)

• The Trumpet Major (1880)

• The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

• The Woodlanders (1887)

• Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)

• Jude the Obscure (1896)

Novelist of the age

• Benjamin Disraeli

• Charles Dickens

• W. M. Thackeray

• Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily, Anne)

• George Meredith

• George Eliot

• Thomas Hardy

• Elizabeth Bowen

Charles Dickens(1812-70)

• The Pickwick Papers • Oliver Twist • Bleak House • Nicholas Nickleby• Sketches by Boz• Our Mutual Friend • A Tale of Two cities• Little Dorritt• Old Curiosity • Hard Times

W.M. Thackeray

(1811-63)

• George Meredith

(1828-1909)

• Punch

• Vanity fair

• Pendennis

• Henry Esmond

• The Virginians

• The New Comes

• The Shaving of Shagpat (1856)

• The Ordeal of Richard Feverel(1859)

• Evan Harrington (1861)

• Diana of the Crossways (1815)

George Eliot (1819-80)

• Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)

• Adam Bede (1859)

• The Mill on the Floss (1860)

• Silas Marner: The Weaver of Reveloe(1861)

• Middle March (1872)

Bronte Sisters • Charlotte (1816-55)• Jane Eyre (1847)• Shirley (1849)• Villette (1853)• The Professor (1857)

• Emily (1818-48)• Wuthering Heights (1847)

• Anne • Agnes Grey (1847)• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

(1848)