literary tendencies of the victorian age
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Literary Tendencies of the Victorian
Age.Paper E-C-204By- Payal Patel
M.A.Sem-IIRoll no-18
2011
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Tendencies are like...
• Importance of individuals.• Realism.• The social and political life.• Science.
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•The age of prose and novel.
‘‘The novel in this age fills a place which the drama held in the days of Elizabeth;and never before, in any age, or language, has the novel appeared in such numbers and in such perfection.’’
- W.J Long.
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Writers’ intentions
• Behind the fun and sentiment of Dickens, the social miniatures 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 underlying truth of human life.
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Thank you
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to all the professors and the Department of English.
Bhavnagar University. Bhavnagar.