Victorian Age
The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that
Queen Victoria acceded the throne, but also the year that a new literary
age was coined. The Victorian Age, more formally known, was a time of
great prosperity in Great Britain's literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious, the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable. The novels of Charles Dickens, the poems of Alfred,
Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning, the dramatic plays of Oscar Wilde, the
scientific discoveries of the Darwins, and the religious revolt of Newman
all helped to enhance learning and literacy in the Victorian society. Of
all of the Literary eras, the Victorian age gave a new meaning to the word
controversy. Writers of that time challenged the ideas of religion, crime,
sexuality, chauvinism and over all social controversies.......
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