Literature in the Victorian Era | A Historical Overview

Over the six decades of Queen Victoria's reign, some 60,000 works of prose fiction were published in Great Britain alone. What made the Victorian era the golden age of the English novel? And what factors especially influenced the literature of the period? Here is our brief historical overview of Victorian literature.
Music:
- Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) Op. 67
Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by Takashi Sato
- Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by ClassicaViva Orchestra
(Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0)
Sources:
www.bl.uk
www.rct.uk
www.history.com
www.britannica.com
loc.getarchive.net
writersinspire.org
www.english-heritage.org.uk
wellcomecollection.org
www.oxfordbibliographies.com
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I could have listened to more than an hour on this subject alone. Victorian literature is an enormously broad topic, with writers as diverse as Emily Bronte and Joseph Conrad. I'd love to see you do a more expanded version.

[@monicacall7532]

I second your suggestion. Perhaps Victorian literature could be broken into a variety of themes such as literature that called attention to social ills such as poverty, the class system, etc., novels about the British Empire (Kipling’s Jungle Books comes to mind), the changing role of women, the industrialization of Britain and so forth.

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Thank you for citing your sources! Wonderful work.

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Thank you for a great introduction to Victorian literature. I am especially impressed by how you've also highlighted other aspects of Victorian culture, especially its art.

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please make a historical overview about tudor and elizabethan era

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Okay! Okay! You've convinced me, I'll register for the Victorian Era literature class!

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Marvellous! I highly enjoyed this video and I don‘t hesitate to like, subscribe and ring the notification bell as I declare myself a dedicated bookworm and lover of English literature - much love from Germany

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[@hondoklaatu1904]

Excellent video. I appreciate all your research.The victorian era is very fascinating to me. I especially like the mystery or adventure books of the era. My favorite are Doyle, Stevenson, Verne, Melville, Wilkie Collins, and Kipling (though not his more imperialist stuff) . Does anyone have any more classic victorian adventure authors or stories I should try out?

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Thomas Hardy.

[@curiousworld7912]

Well, of course, there's Dickens. And some of the more mysterious writers might be those such as Algernon Blackwood, whose short stories are sometimes absolutely marvelous, there's Anthony Trollope, Nathaniel Hawthorne and another great American short story writer of the age, Ambrose Bierce.

[@TheGentlemanPsychic]

You may enjoy The Baron Munchhausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe . It is a little earlier in history, but still popular during the time and incredibly entertaining.

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Helpful

[@soobindoll9561]

My favorite era

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[@MF-ct4il]

is this information can be used as the Characteristics of Victorian literature ??

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Hi there! Could you send me the script of your video, cause i am doing my presentation about the Victorian era, and your video is so helpful and give a lot of interesting ideas. Thank you!!!

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I enjoyed this very much; I wish, though, that the music had been a little less loud. It made it difficult to hear comfortably what you were saying.

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Henry Myahew: London Labor and the London Poor. WOnderful but troubling book!

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Please can you tell what are the influence of Victorian age on litreature?

[@sandrasmith382]

It paved the way for modernism and brought to light injustices of the poor working class. It built upon the neo classical romantic period but was Moore realistic.

[@vishnuugale7160]

Very useful but background music hinders little

[@thogameskanaal]

Really fascinating! The British empire having a BILLION inhabitants in the 1800s!? That's getting awfully close to modern demographics... Though, with the important difference being that modern population numbers rose naturally, and are actually maintainable.

[@rileysimpson3543]

The British Empire never had close to a billion people… The most they had was 531 million in 1938.

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This was crystal clear! From a non English speaker :)

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[@bubbercakes528]

Dickens is without a doubt the greatest writer ever.

[@Chinnnnuz]

Have you read 'Don quixote' by Miguel de cervantes? Earler writer than dickens but in my opinion stands head and shoulders above many other authors and their works. Try him if you ever have the time to.

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[@charneedsit]

this became a port of my online learning for English and i am very disturbed by this content

[@disturbedcraig12]

My great grandmother was a victoran😊

[@jordanhuang1945]

transcript?

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[@avocadoguacamola7872]

Y'all there's a thing called subtitle, smh...

[@davidthom7127]

I couldn't listen to your video because the background music was TOO LOUD

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[@KevTheImpaler]

Queen Victoria would not have said she had almost a billion citizens, because a billion was a million million to the British back then.

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I'm supposed to be watching the video cuz my teacher said so she don't know I'm In the comments

[@laurasacchi8308]

First industrial revolution was in 1760..

[@lindanorris2455]

As long as I never have to read stupid ERNEST HEMINGWAY or ANY RAND EVER AGAIN! GOOD GAWD!

[@tomaspolach8652]

Please don't use music while you talk, it's very distracting. I suggest using it only as a filler between topics.

[@giacomomitaritonna2139]

change the music in the background, its very disturbing

[@lavenderflowersfall280]

They couldn't even take care of themselves why were they trying to take over the world. I think people at heart want to help others but it's much easier to sit down and write a novel about doing it actually doing it. Which is what I'm doing

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0:18 Peace and what?

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sherlock Holmes the father of stupidity

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Because Victoria married with German man, so Albert brought culture to UK.

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I wish my teacher didn't make it a requirement to listen to this... I can't stand the mouth noises that come out of this lady's mouth when she speaks!

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Relax

[@cheesecake4648]

For "Victoria" they should have casted an ugly actress given the fact how ugly was that queen or any other, including kings.... british...

[@yamy9312]

i agree, you would’ve been perfect for the role 😁