Victorian literature

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Victorian literature refers to the body of English writing produced during Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901), characterized by social realism, moral concern, and the exploration of rapid industrial and scientific change.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Victorian literature canonical 351
Victorian poetry 12
Victorian realism 4

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Statements (78)

Predicate Object
instanceOf English literature movement
literary period
country United Kingdom
endTime 1901
followedBy Modernist literature
follows Romantic literature
hasCharacteristic attention to class conflict
complex narrative structures
concern with gender roles
didacticism
engagement with industrialization
engagement with scientific progress
interest in empire and colonialism
interest in social reform
melodrama
moral concern
realist description of everyday life
religious doubt and crisis of faith
sentimentalism
serial publication format
social realism
hasGenre Gothic fiction
adventure fiction
children's literature
detective fiction
drama
essay
historical novel
novel
poetry
religious tract
sensation fiction
short story
social problem novel
hasNotableAuthor Alfred Tennyson
Anne Brontë
Anthony Trollope
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Brontë
Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth Gaskell
Emily Brontë
George Eliot
George Meredith
H. G. Wells
Lewis Carroll
Matthew Arnold
Oscar Wilde
Robert Browning
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Hardy
Wilkie Collins
William Makepeace Thackeray
hasNotableMovement Aestheticism
Decadent movement
linked to: Decadentism

Oxford Movement
linked to: Anglo-Catholicism

Pre-Raphaelite movement
linked to: Pre-Raphaelite art
influenced Edwardian literature
Modernist literature
linked to: Modernism
influencedBy British Empire expansion
Darwinism
Evangelicalism
Industrial Revolution
utilitarianism
language English
namedAfter Queen Victoria
periodOf Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Great Expectations
Jane Eyre
Middlemarch
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
linked to: Tess

The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Time Machine
Vanity Fair
Wuthering Heights
startTime 1837

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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Thomas Carlyle movement Victorian literature
Charlotte Brontë movement Victorian literature
Jane Eyre literaryMovement Victorian literature
Emily Brontë movement Victorian literature
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Sheridan Le Fanu movement Victorian literature
Charles Dickens movement Victorian literature
Rudyard Kipling movement Victorian literature
Robert Browning movement Victorian literature
Lewis Carroll movement Victorian literature
Thomas Hardy movement Victorian literature
Silas Marner literaryPeriod Victorian literature
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Middlemarch literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Romola literaryMovement Victorian literature
Daniel Deronda literaryMovement Victorian literature
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Robert Louis Stevenson movement Victorian literature
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Vivian Grey literaryMovement Victorian literature
David Copperfield literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Mr Septimus Harding literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Archdeacon Grantly literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Lord Fawn literaryPeriod Victorian literature
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Love and Mr. Lewisham literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Mrs Hurtle literaryPeriod Victorian literature
John Bold literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Sir Roger Scatcherd literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Sir Roger Scatcherd literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Bell Dale literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Grace Crawley literaryMovement Victorian realism
linked to: Victorian literature
Andrew Lang movement Victorian literature
Sir Felix Carbury literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Eleanor Harding literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Lady Mary Palliser literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Isabel Boncassen literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Mr. Furnival literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Madame Max Goesler literaryPeriod Victorian literature