• Why people wrote gothic in victorian
• Patrick Brantlinger Companion to the Vic. Nov. ilk 48
• Key aspects of Victorian social values include
• Women’s roles in the Victorian era
• How did the Victorian era influence the Novels and societal changes on the narrative thematic development of these novels?

Victorian Novel Features

Victorian Novel

• London became a metropolis, ownership of land system to modern economy
• Industrial rev got widespread, they become the imperial power.
• They were colonizing left and right and saw it as their mission to civilize and govern the non-white
• They had better transportation forms such as railways and they also had telegraph. The English army was also ruling over the seas thanks to their military power Royal Navy
• Victorians reign was symbolical, they moved to parlimantel system. it was more of a transitionary period because it had lots of political reforms like reform act of 1832 - 67- 84. People went from rural areas to urban areas
• Society was not doing good and the felt alienated from the work force thanks to the technology advancing along with the alienation effect come to the basis of Gothic lit
• Their romantic era left its place to more realistic and gloomy stories. People especialy the artists, wanted to go way back to they received gothic aesthetic as a reaction to rationalism, order of enlightenment and industrial rev
• They were fascinated by the supernatural, mysterious and darker aspect of human nature.
• Isolation and madness
• exploration of gender roles
• Moral and social comentaries
• beginning of modern movement
• The novel was the dominant literature.
• Victorian novels represents a large and comprehensive social world with a variety of classes.