Victorian literature

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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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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 NERFINISHED ⓘ Anne Brontë NERFINISHED ⓘ Anthony Trollope NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Dickens NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlotte Brontë NERFINISHED ⓘ Christina Rossetti NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth Gaskell NERFINISHED ⓘ Emily Brontë NERFINISHED ⓘ George Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ George Meredith NERFINISHED ⓘ H. G. Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Carroll NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Wilde NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Browning NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Louis Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudyard Kipling NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilkie Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ William Makepeace Thackeray NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasNotableMovement	Aestheticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Decadent movement NERFINISHED ⓘ Oxford Movement NERFINISHED ⓘ Pre-Raphaelite movement NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Edwardian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Modernist literature NERFINISHED ⓘ
influencedBy	British Empire expansion ⓘ Darwinism NERFINISHED ⓘ Evangelicalism NERFINISHED ⓘ Industrial Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ utilitarianism ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
namedAfter	Queen Victoria NERFINISHED ⓘ
periodOf	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Expectations NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Eyre NERFINISHED ⓘ Middlemarch NERFINISHED ⓘ Tess of the d'Urbervilles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Picture of Dorian Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde NERFINISHED ⓘ The Time Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanity Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ Wuthering Heights NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	1837 ⓘ

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Daniel Deronda → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Dracula → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Jane Eyre → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Phineas Finn → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Phineas Redux → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Romola → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Scenes of Clerical Life → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

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

The Duke's Children → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Vivian Grey → literaryMovement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Archdeacon Grantly → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

David Copperfield → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

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

Lord Fawn → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Middlemarch → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Mr Septimus Harding → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Orley Farm → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Rachel Ray → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Silas Marner → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

The Eustace Diamonds → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

The Mill on the Floss → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

The Prime Minister → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

The Small House at Allington → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

The War of the Worlds → literaryPeriod → Victorian literature ⓘ

Charles Dickens → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Charlotte Brontë → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Emily Brontë → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Lewis Carroll → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Robert Browning → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Robert Louis Stevenson → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Rudyard Kipling → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Sheridan Le Fanu → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Thomas Carlyle → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ

Thomas Hardy → movement → Victorian literature ⓘ