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    The Victorian Age was a time of great change and development in literature. Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901 and oversaw massive industrial and technological growth. New genres became popular such as Gothic fiction, science fiction, children's literature, detective novels, and dramatic monologue poetry. Works from this era often dealt with social issues and criticized social classes. Developments like the Oxford English Dictionary and increased access to education contributed to this flourishing literary period in British history.

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    Chapter VIII

    The Victorian Age Literary


    Feature
    Akhmad Alfan Rahadi
    Romeo Septiga
    Maya Faozia

    The Victorian Age


    The Victorian Age is an age when
    Queen Victoria of England reigns.
    She came to power in 1837 and
    reigned until 1901 claiming the title
    of the longest time in power in the
    history of the British monarchy.
    Victoria was described as insightful
    figurehead who although remained
    reserved she used her power and
    influence to get what she wanted. A
    strong women she over saw a vast

    Poetry:

    Rising Genres Of The Victorian Age


    Literature

    Long dramatic monologue : Porphyria's Lover, Aurora Leigh, The Idylls of the King,Jenny

    Nonfiction (Essay) :

    scientific essay : Origins Of Species

    art criticism : Modern Painters, Blackwood's

    autobiography: Augustus J. C. Hare's The Story of My Life, Yeats

    Fiction (Novels And Short Stories) :

    Gothic/dark romantic : The Black Cat, Dracula, Picture of Dorian Gray, Strange Case of Dr
    Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Science fiction : War Of The Worlds, Time Machine

    Condition of england /industrial novel/social novel/slum novel: Shirley, Oliver Twist

    Children's Literature: Alice In Wonderland, Jungle Book

    Sensation Novel : The Woman In White, The Moonstone

    Bildungroman /romantic-self development novel: Great Expectations, Waterland

    Women Novel: Odd Woman, The Woman Who Did

    Detective Novel: Sherlock Holmes

    Political novel: North and South, Crossways, The Year Of Jubilee

    Epistolary novel: He Knew He Was Right, Phineas Redux

    Victorian governess : Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey

    Literary Characteristic of Victorian


    Period

    1. Social unrest: industrial age with its problem, women rights, social reform demand

    2. Morality: the predesignated proper manner of men and women (no woman should ride a bicycle and
    smoking in public was inappropriate)
    3. Realism: depiction of social condition in victorian age, daily life, details and average people characters
    4. Sublimity: an ability to provoke excitement, ecstacy through literary work
    5. Social Status or Social Classes: social gap between classes, snobbery high class
    6. Revolt: social criticism, protests against tyranny
    7. Intellectual Development: rising technology development, scientific theories
    8. New Education : Education Act, making a certain measure of education compulsory , gives people new
    intellectual perspective and new reading society. Cheap printing cost, more book demand
    9. International Influences : colonial theme, new vocabulary, description of foreign countries

    Social literature (Slum


    Literature)
    Most notable victorian literature, emphasize on the
    realistic portrayal of social life, represented many
    Victorian issues in the stories of its characters.
    Example:
    a line from Oliver Twist (chapter 1)
    "But now that he was enveloped in the old calico robes,
    which had grown yellow in the same service, he was
    badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once - a
    parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble
    half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and bufeted through
    the world, - despised by all, and pitied by none"

    Gothic Literature
    Victorian Age also gave a new development for Gothic genre .An important and
    innovative reinterpreter of the Gothic in this period was Edgar Allan Poe, an
    american. Poe focused less on the traditional elements of gothic stories and
    more on the psychology of his characters as they often descended into
    madness. Poe, believed that terror was a legitimate literary subject. His
    story "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) explores these 'terrors of the
    soul' while revisiting classic Gothic tropes of aristocratic decay, death, and
    madness.
    Science also started to take a role in this genre as seen on R.L Stevenson's
    The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The character Dr Jekyll was
    a scientist, invented a serum that can separate his good and evil personality
    (who is characterized as Mr Hyde). The application of scientific theme (the
    invention of serum) in a gothic literature was rarely seen in an occult and
    magic dominated themes. Modern theme also applies on Oscar Wilde's
    Picture Of Dorian Gray. But still traditional gothic monster themed gain
    its new popularity by publication of Dracula a reinterpretation of Vlad the
    Impaler into a more occult way of telling and in a modern setting.

    Science Fiction
    With the new development of science
    and technology, science fiction literature
    then gained popularity. The most
    notable was the work of H.G Wells that
    deals with space travel and aliens in
    War of the Worlds, darwinian evolution
    theory and genetic engineering in The
    Island Of Doctor Moreau and time
    travel in Time Machine.

    Children's Literature
    Lewis Caroll (whose original name is Charles
    Lutwidge Dodgson) gained his popularity
    through Alice's Adventure In Wonderland a
    children fantasy story set in a world of
    anthropomorphic creatures and magic which
    also influenced L. Frank Baum to write
    Wonderful Wizard Of Oz. This also popularized
    the usage of illustration in children's book.
    International Influence also has a role in this
    genre, notably on Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book
    which set in an Indian Jungle.

    Detective Novel
    Victorian Age was also an age of
    murder, felony and injustice. Marked
    by the notoriety of Jack The Ripper
    who serially murdered prostitutes in
    London in medical precision. Thus,
    gave the popularization of detective
    genre, most notably Sir Arthur Conan
    Doyle's Stories Of Sherlock Holmes

    Dramatic Monologue
    While dramatic monologue poetry has
    already quite popular in the romantic
    era via Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe
    Shelley, Victorian Age even further drive
    the genre into its highest point with the
    help from Lord Tennyson's Ullyses,
    Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach and
    Robert Browning's My Last Duchess.
    Which also reinterpreted into plays

    Nonfictional work
    The new Education Act gave a certain
    measure of education compulsory, which
    produced great reading public. Thus also
    gave an opening to new development of
    science and intellectual. Nonfictional essay
    on Science, History and even Religion gained
    its popularity. Such as Origin Of Species by
    Charles Darwin (scientific essay) and Studies
    of England Educators by Macaulay (history)
    and lectures from Cardinal John Henry
    Newman

    Oxford English Dictionary


    The victorian age also gave birth to the Oxford English
    Dictionary. At first, the dictionary was unconnected to
    Oxford University but was the idea of a small group of
    intellectuals in London;[3]:1034,112 it originally was a
    Philological Society project conceived in London by Richard
    Chenevix Trench, Herbert Coleridge, and Frederick Furnivall,
    who were dissatisfied with the current English dictionaries. In
    June 1857, they formed an "Unregistered Words Committee"
    to search for unlisted and undefined words lacking in current
    dictionaries. Then the Philological society approached
    Cambridge and Oxford University press, which eventually the
    printing was taken by Oxford University Press which at that
    time hired James Murray as the editor.Thus, in 1884 mark the
    birth of the first edition of Oxford English Dictionary

    Steampunk
    The imaginary world of Victorian Science Fiction as
    told by H.G Wells, Edward Bellamy, Edgar Allen Poe
    (in his THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURE OF ONE
    HANS PFAALL) and Mary Shelley (in The Last Man)
    gave a new perspective of science fiction that will
    influence the literature world in the future. The
    exaggerated victorian steam techonolgy and
    numerous possibility for it to be used in time
    travel, space travel, weaponry and means or
    transportations coined the genre Steampunk.
    Which influences movies like War of the Worlds,
    Time Machine, Metropolis, Steam Boy (japanese
    animation) and Trip To The Moon

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