Victorian literature

E98510

English literature movement literary period

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.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Victorian literature canonical	351
Victorian poetry	12
Victorian realism	4
Victorian literature (as field of study)	1

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, Lord Tennyson ⓘ surface form: Alfred Tennyson Anne Brontë ⓘ Anthony Trollope ⓘ Charles Dickens ⓘ Charlotte Brontë ⓘ Christina Rossetti ⓘ Elizabeth Gaskell ⓘ Emily Brontë ⓘ George Eliot ⓘ George Meredith ⓘ Herbert George Wells ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Decadentism ⓘ surface form: Decadent movement Anglo-Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Oxford Movement Pre-Raphaelite art ⓘ surface form: Pre-Raphaelite movement
influenced	Edwardian literature ⓘ Modernism ⓘ surface form: Modernist literature
influencedBy	British Empire expansion ⓘ Darwinism ⓘ Evangelicalism ⓘ Industrial Revolution ⓘ utilitarianism ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
namedAfter	Queen Victoria ⓘ
periodOf	Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ⓘ surface form: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Great Expectations ⓘ Jane Eyre ⓘ Middlemarch ⓘ Tess ⓘ surface form: Tess of the d'Urbervilles The Picture of Dorian Gray ⓘ Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ⓘ surface form: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Time Machine ⓘ Vanity Fair ⓘ Wuthering Heights ⓘ
startTime	1837 ⓘ

Referenced by (368)

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

The War of the Worlds → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

The Eustace Diamonds → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Phineas Redux → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Rachel Ray → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

The Duke's Children → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Phineas Finn → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

The Small House at Allington → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Orley Farm → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

The Prime Minister → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Thomas Carlyle → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Charlotte Brontë → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Jane Eyre → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Emily Brontë → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Dracula → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

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 ⓘ

Adam Bede → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

The Mill on the Floss → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Middlemarch → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Romola → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Daniel Deronda → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Scenes of Clerical Life → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Robert Louis Stevenson → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Sybil, or The Two Nations → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Vivian Grey → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

David Copperfield → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Mr Septimus Harding → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Archdeacon Grantly → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Lord Fawn → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Bishop Proudie → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

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 is a patient of Doctor Thorne → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

subject surface form: Sir Roger Scatcherd

Bell Dale → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Grace Crawley → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Victorian realism

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 ⓘ