- 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.